...and an honorable paper like the honor of the saw. The phrase found on page 34, line 11, therefore means: "these leathers are cut into various shapes and serrated in various ways with much art."

*Sharq al-qasab al-sharqi*, a species of reed, p. 6, v; compare Edrisi in Jaubert's translation, I, p. 179, v. *Al-na'al al-sharqi*, a sandal made of *qasab sharqi*.

*Sha'ab* (V), the synonym of *tafarru'* and *inqasama*, to divide into branches, when speaking of a river, p. 101; Belâdhori, p. 292; Ibn-Hawqal, chapter on Iraq; "and it branches out above Basra and many rivers branch from it." And Beeri, p. 15, line 9; Edrisi, Clim. VI, Sect. 6: "It is said that it branches out from the river of the people of Nab' and seventy rivers." *Boethor*, a sub-branch, the river divides into three branches; - from a chain of mountains; Ibn-Hawqal, chapter on Syria: "and mountains branch from it (the mountains)." Edrisi copied this passage and his text is found in Jaubert's translation, II, p. 134, n. 1; but according to his custom, he altered it, because instead of *al-mu'amalin*, the manuscripts carry *al-'amalin*, and this is how it should be read; - from a road, Beeri, p. 10, lines 6 to 7.

*Ashghal*, pl. *shughl*, *shughl*, manufacture, p. 5, lines 3 onwards; Alcala, manufacture (= *sina'a*); Berggren has *ashghal* for manufactures.

(1) *Shaghu*, to satisfy, p. 74; Belâdhori, p. 41, 260, 427, 440; Edrisi in Amari, Bibl. Arab. Sic., p. 52, last line; Clim. I, Sect. 7; and we Macca- ri, I, p. 268, second to last line, II, p. 105, last line, and M. Fleischer's note, p. VIII; similarly in the titles of several books that Hâji Khalifa lists under *Thuna'i* and under *Sha'a'*, where the meaning of healing, given by M. Flügel, is not at all suitable for all.

(1) *Shaghu*, in the sense of crossing, is not only constructed with the accusative, but also with *fi*, p. 7, line 7; Thousand and One Nights, I, p. 47, Macnaghten edition: "and I preceded *fi* Aswan the city"; where the edition of