2 ρ Phyfical and Mifcellaneons 



Way equal Impreffions, leaveth Them in the Shape of Cones, 

 or Hemifpheres ; which, (being fix Foot high and a little more 

 or lefs of the fame Diameter,) the Arahs maintain to be fo 

 sun-^rduhemzxi•^ Tents of their PredeceiTors , turned into Stone. But 

 D<£S..whenthefe Rocks, befides their ufual foft chalky Subftance, 

 contain like wife fomeLayers of harder Matter, not fo eafy to be 

 diiTolved, then, in Proportion to the Refiftance the Water is 

 thereby to meet with, we are entertained with a Confufion 

 of Traces and Channels, diftinguiihed by the Arahs into Sheep, 

 Camels, Horfes ; nay, into Men, Women and Children, whom 

 they fuppofe to have undergone the like Fate with their Habi- 

 tations. I obferved, that the Fountains which afforded this 

 Water , had been frequently flopped up ; or rather, ceafmg 

 to run at one Place, broke out immediately in another : which 

 Circumftance feems not only to account for the Number of 

 Cones, but for that Variety likewife of Traces, that are con- 

 tinued from one or other of thefe Cones or Fountains, quite 

 down to the River Zenati. 

 TheQroundic- This Placc, in riding over It, giveth back fuch a hollow 

 'tZlsiouZ"' Sound, that we were affraid every Moment of finking through 

 It. It is probable therefore that the Ground below us was 

 hollow : and may not the Air then, which is pent up within 

 thefe Caverns, afford, (as we may fuppofe, in efcaping conti- 

 nually through thefe Fountains,) that Mixture of ilirill, mur- 

 muring and deep Sounds, which, according to the direclion of 

 the Winds and the Motion of the external Air, iflue out along 

 with the Water ? The Arabs (to quote their Strength of Ima- 

 gination once more) affirm thefe Sounds to be the Mufick of 

 the \yenoune\ Fairies, who arefuppofed, in a particular Man- 

 ner, to make their Abodes at this Place, and to be the grand 

 Agents in all thefe extraordinary Appearances. 

 Tke mcrufia- Thcrc arc other natural Curiofities likewife at this Place. 

 't"ef!ii-^lcrs. For the chalky Stone, being diffolved into a fine impalpable 

 Powder and carried down afterwards with the Stream, lodgeth 

 Itfelf upon the Sides of the Channel, nay fometimes upon the 

 Lips of the Fountains themfelves ; or elfe, embracing Twigs, 

 Straws and other Bodies in It's Way, immediately hardeneth 

 and ihoots into a bright fibrous Subftance, like the AshefloSy 

 forming Itfelf, at the fame Time, into a Variety of glittering 

 Figures and beautiful Chriftalizations 



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