Chapter ii., I have shewn that a fiction in one of the tales is framed

in accordance with the distinction of Muslims, Christians, and Jews, by

the colours of their turbans, which mode of distinction originated in

the beginning of the eighth century of the Flight. Secondly, in the

present note, I have mentioned a fact which affords some reason for

inferring that there had been a long series of Sulṭáns in Egypt before

the age of the writer or writers. In the third place, I must remark,

that all the events described in this work are said to have happened in

ages which, with respect to that of the writer or writers, were

_ancient_, being related to an ancient king; from which I think we may

infer its age to have been at least two centuries posterior to the

period mentioned in the first of these data. Fourthly, in Note 22 to