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In the following account of every mansion of the moon I follow the 

 same author, hut abridge his text : — 



" Fourteen mansions are northern and called the left mansions, and as 

 many are southern and called the right. When the northern mansions 

 rise (heliacally) the night is longer than the day, and when the southern 

 ones rise the day is longer than the night. The moon either makes 

 her daily stages in the respective mansion or a little before or behind 

 it (but in the same line), or out of the line of the mansions to the north 

 or south. 



1. Sharatdn or sharfan (dual), sing. shar£ or shara£, pi. ashra£, which 

 means signs ei>U>3le. Also called the horn (J*\ I would observe that 

 this and most other pure Arabic terms of returning are obsolete in their 

 common acceptation, or perhaps belong to a dialect, which forms but 

 a slight ingredient into the written language) being, according to those 



