A regiment had passed through Jericho from the Hedjaz line at Amman and was marching up the road to assist in Jerusalem's defence, but was 'Too late.'

From an Engraving of the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman.]

From an Engraving of the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman.]

83.The Winegrower, drawn and engraved in the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman.]

89.The Butcher and his Servant, drawn and engraved by J. Amman (Sixteenth Century).

92.The Poulterer, drawn and engraved in the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman.]

97.The Manufacture of Oil, drawn and engraved by J. Amman in the Sixteenth Century.]

101.The River Fisherman, designed and engraved, in the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman.]

Century, by J. Amman.]

122.The Cook, drawn and engraved, in the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman.]

158.German Falconer, designed and engraved, in the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman.]

Fac-simile of Engravings on Wood, designed and engraved by J. Amman, in the Sixteenth Century.

391.Grand Procession of the Doge, Venice (Sixteenth Century).Reduced from one of fourteen Engravings representing this Ceremony, designed and engraved by J. Amman.]

Mir Amman himself explains the origin and derivation of these words in his preface, and we cannot appeal to a better authority.

It was engrafted on the Hijri aera in the first year of that monarch's reign, with this proviso, that the Fasli years should thenceforth go on increasing by solar calculation, and not by lunar; hence, every century the Hijri aera gains three years on the Fasli, and in Mir Amman's time the difference had amounted to nearly eight years.

A mere novice in the language would say that Mir Amman writes "bad grammar" here!

Now Mir Amman distinctly tells us that he gives us the language as it is.

The word is used in the singular, both by Mir Amman and the original author, Amir Khusru according to a well-known rule in Persian syntax, viz., "a substantive accompanied by a numerical adjective dispenses with the plural termination," as "haft roz," "seven days," not "haft rozha.

The introduction of the hukka is an improvement of Mir Amman's; as that luxury was unknown in Europe and Asia at the time of Amir Khusru.

This is Mir Amman's plain expression.

This, perhaps, induced Mir Amman to call the wonder-performing barber and surgeon 'Isa.

With regard to the plain, simple sentence, "yih kahkar takht uthaya," we have somewhere seen the following erudite criticism, viz.:"With deference to Mir Amman, this is bad grammar.

He says, "Mir Amman here sins against grammar; it should be, do mahinon men!!!"

In reality, Mir Amman would be wrong if he had employed the reading recommended by the sapient critic; do mahine men means "in two months;" do mahinon men "in the two months" (previously determined upon).

This, Mir Amman might have learned from some of the resident Europeans, while he filled up the rest from his own luxuriant imagination.