208 THE BEE, OR Feb. 9, 



eft advice, — form upon the whole a fpecles of compofi- 

 tion, fo uncommon, and at the fame time fo pleafing, 

 that I hope my readers will be well pleafed with the 

 following morccls, which have been felefled for their en- 

 tertainment. At the fame time that thefe infcriptions 

 may be prized as o^bjefts of tafte, they deferve to be 

 "held in high eftimation, as hiftorical records, that tend- 

 to give a diftinft idea of the ftate of the country, at the 

 time they were written, and of the modes of thinking 

 of its people. 



The follov\'ing infcription was copied from the front 

 of a building, erefted as an hofpital in the year 1376, 

 which anfwers to the 77Sth year of the Hegira. It 

 runs thus : 



" Praifebe to God. This hofpital, an afylum of mercy, 

 " was builtfor the benefit ofpoorandficlilVIoors; a workj 

 " the piety and utility of which no tonguecan iiinicient- 

 " ly praife. It ftands a monument of the faith and cha- 

 " rity of the founder, and will be his recompence, when 

 *' God fhall inherit the earth, and all that it contains. 

 " The founder is the great, the renowned, and the vir- 

 ", tuous, Abi Abdallah Mahomad : May he p.rofper in 

 " God ! the zealous king, the friend and benefactor of 

 •' his people ; who employs his minilier for the glory 

 *' of his religion, and of God ; the courageous prince, 

 " the propagator of pious works ; the prince prote£led 

 *' by angels ; the pure faint ; the proteftor of the laws 

 *' and of morality ; the worthy emperor of the Moors ; 

 ♦' may he profper in God ! He is the fon of our Lord, 

 " the j'ujl king, the high and powerful, the conqueror, 

 " the fortunate, the pious governor of the Moors, Abi- 

 *' alhageg, who hears witiiefs to the laws, fon of the re- 

 »' nowned, of the fubli.ne Abi Algualid, the deftroyei* 

 ♦' of thofe by whom companions are given to God; fon 

 •' of Nazar the privileged, happy in his works, and in 

 *• every thing which is refolved in the decrees of God, 

 *' for his fervice and with him . He projefted this aedi- 

 *• fice, from the moment the Moorilh nation became fove- 



