XIV NOTES. 



full of vigour and grandeur, are found in the writings of Mose hen Jakob ben 

 Esra (S. 69, 77, and 285). 



(?') p. 47. I have taken the passages in the book of Job from the trans- 

 lation and exposition of Umbreit (1824), S. xxix. xlii. and 290314. 

 (Consult generally Gesenius, Geschichte der hebr. Sprache und Schrift, S. 33; 

 and Jobi antiquissimi carminis hebr. natura atque virtutes, ed. Ilgen, p. 28.) 

 The longest and most characteristic description of an animal which we meet 

 with in the book of Job, is that of the crocodile (xl. 25 xli. 26), and yet it 

 contains one of the evidences of the writer having been himself a native of 

 Palestine, Umbreit, S. xli. & 308. As the river-horse of the Nile and the 

 crocodile were formerly found throughout the whole Delta of the Nile, it is 

 not surprising that the knowledge of animals of such strange and peculiar 

 form should have spread into the neighbouring country of Palestine. 



(T 2 ) p. 48. Gothe im Commentar zum west-ostlichen Divan, S. 8. 



(T 3 ) p. 48. Antar, a Bedouin romance, translated from the Arabic by 

 Terrick Hamilton, Vol. i. p. xxvi. , Hammer, in the Wiener Jahrbuchern der 

 Litteratur, Bd. vi. 1819, S. 229 , Rosenmuller, in the Charaktereu der vor- 

 nehmsten Dichter aller Natiouem, Bd. v. (1798) S. 251. 



(? 4 ) p. 49. Antara cum schol. Sunsenii, ed. Menil. 1816, v. 15. 



P) p. 49. Amrulkeisi Moallakat, ed. E. G. Heustenberg, 1823 ; Ha- 

 masa, ed. Freytag, P. i. 1828, lib. vii. p. 785. See also in the pleasing 

 work, entitled, " Amrilkais, the Poet and King," translated by Fr. Ruckert, 

 1843, pp 29 and 62, where southern showers are twice described with ex- 

 ceeding truth to nature. The royal poet visited the court of the Emperor 

 Justinian several years before the birth of Mahommed, for the purpose of 

 obtaining assistance against his enemies. See Le Diwan d'Amro 'Ikais, ac 

 compagne d'une traduction par le Baron MacGuckm de Slane, 1837, p. 111. 



P) p. 49. Nabeghah Dhobyani, in Silvestre de Sacy's Chrestom. arabe, 

 1806, T. iii. p. 47. On the early Arabian literature generally, see "Weil's 

 Poet. Litteratur der Araber vor Mohammed, 1837, S. 15 and 90, as well as 

 Freytag's Darstellung der arabischen Verskunst, 1830, S. 372392. We 

 may soon expect a truly fine and complete version of the Arabian poetry con- 

 nected with uature in the writings ol Hamasa ironi our great poet Fnednch 

 Riickert. 



f 7 ) p. 49. Hamasse Carmina, ed. Freytag, P. i. 1828, p, 788. " Here 

 finishes," it is said m page 796, " the chapter on travel 



(**) p. 51.- Dante, Purgatorio, canto i. v. 115; 

 " L' alba vmceva 1' ora mattutina 

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