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fitted when the town was subsequently rebuilt, there 
is nothing within the walls to interest the traveller; 
but in the neighbourhood, there are several Mohum- 
medan tombs and ruined mosques, which attract 
notice. One of these, the most worthy, is here 
exhibited to the reader. It is called by the people 
of the place, Aboo’s Moohkburra, or the resting-place 
(the common name for a tomb) of Aboo. But who 
this particular Aboo really was, all the various depo- 
nents wdiom I examined, could not say. During my 
eager inquiries upon this subject, no less than forty- 
five or forty-six illustrious A boos were enumerated ; 
concerning each of whom some piece of history, some 
tale, or romance, is recorded. Yet, strange to say, 
it did not appear probable to me, that any one of 
all the numerous Aboosso mentioned, should have 
been buried at Merat, when this mausoleum was 
erected. 
If the date were not so very far back, the strongest 
suspicion would naturally attach to one Aboo Buk- 
kur, entitled by some historians the key-stone of the 
power of A1 Razi, who lived in a. d. 938 ; for of 
him it is written, that he was thrice buried. Indeed 
he appears to have lived a sort of triune existence, 
which should have entitled him to three such tombs. 
He was three times vizier, under three different 
khalifs ; he performed three pilgrimages to Mekka ; 
thrice fairly copied the sacred text of the Khoran ; 
and, as before mentioned, was three times interred. 
