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Divinity; all individuals are equal before their Creator; 
all are intimately persuaded that their works alone re- 
concile them to, or separate them from the Supreme 
Being, without any foreign hand being able to change 
the order of immutable justice! What a curb to sin! 
What an encouragement to virtue! But what a mis- 
fortune that, with so many advantages, we should not 
be better than the Calvinists! 
Arafat is a small mountain of granite rock, the same 
as those that surround it: it is about 150 feet high, 
and is situated at the foot of a higher mountain to the 
E. S. E., in a plain about three quarters of a league 
in diameter, surrounded by barren mountains. 
It is inclosed by a wall, and is ascended by stair- 
cases, partly cut in the rock, and partly composed of 
masonry. There is a chapel upon its summit, which 
the Wehhabites were then in the act of pulling to 
pieces in the interior. It was impossible for me to visit 
it, because individuals who follow the same rite as 
myself, that is to say, the Maleki, are forbidden to 
ascend the top, according to the instructions of the 
Imam, the founder of the rite. It was therefore that 
we stopped when we were half way up, to recite our 
prayer. At the foot of the mountain there is a platform 
erected for this purpose, called Djamaa Arrahma, or 
Mosque of Mercy, upon which, according to tradition, 
the Prophet used to say his prayer. 
Near the mountain are fourteen large basons, which 
the Sultan Saaoud has put in repair. They furnish a 
great abundance of excellent water, very good to drink, 
and which serves " also for the pilgrims to wash them- 
selves with upon this solemn day. The Scherif has a 
house close to the south-west side of the mountain. 
Towards the north-west there is a second platform for 
