JQQ STONKS FALI.EN ON THE EARTH. 



Mahommed Syeed hereupon direded tke aforefaid fpace of 

 ground to be dug up; when, the deeper it was dug the 

 greater was the heat of it found to be. At length, a lump of 

 iron made its appearance, the heat of which was fo violent, 

 that one might have lUppofed it to have been taken from a 

 furnace. After fome time it became cold ; when the Aumil 

 conveyed it to his own habitation, from whence he after- 

 wards difpatched it, in a fealed bag, to court. 

 It weighed up- Here I had [this fubftance] weighed in my prefence. Its 

 wards of four weight was one hundred and fixty tolahs.* I committed it 

 brittle? "° *^^ to a Ikilful artifan, with orders to make of it a fabre, a knife, 

 and a dagger. The workman [foon] reported, that the fub- 

 flance was not malleable, but Jliivered into pieces under the 

 hammer.f 



Upon this, I ordered it lobe mixed with other iron. Con- 

 formably to my orders, three parts of the iron of lightning% 

 were mixed with one part of common iron; and from the 

 mixture were made two fabres, one knife, and one dagger. 

 With the addi- By the addition of the common iron, the [new] fubftance 

 tionofonepart ; ^j ^ rfine] temper; the blade [fabricated from it] 



of common iron '''-H"" '-' L J t ' . , , , r tti c 



to three parts of proving as elaftic as the molt genume blades of Uimanny,§ 

 the metallic ^^^j ^p ^j^^ South, and bending, like them, without leaving 

 ftone, excellent , . ^ , , , . ■ i • r' 



blades were any mark of the bend. I had them tried- m my prelence, 



^^^^' and found them cut excellently; as well [indeed] as the 



belt genuine fabres. One of Ihefe fabres I named Katai, or 

 the cutter; and the other Burk-ferijht, or the lightning-na' 

 tured. 



A poet|| compofed-and prefented to me, on this occafionj, 

 the following tetraftich. 



" This earth has attained order and regularity through the 

 «' Emperor Jehangire : 



" In his time fell raiv iron from lightning : 



" That iron was, by his world-fubduing authority. 



" Converted into a dagger, a knife, and two fabres.'* 



* A tolah is about 180 grains, Troy weight, 

 t Literally, <* it did not ftand beneatli the hnmmer, but fell t» ■ 

 pieces. 



X This exprelTion is equivalent to our term thunder-bolt. 



& The name of the place here defigned is doubtful. 



\\ The poet is nam^d in the original ; but the name is not per- 



feaiy legible. 



Th« 



