Note 175 — X. HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING THE LAND OF ARAN.

Referring probably to Harrán, the Haran of Scripture. The country generally being desert, there was little to say about it. (B).

This chapter is a worthy parallel to that one in Horrebow’s History of Iceland, “Concerning Owls and Snakes,” which Sir Walter Scott quotes more than once with such zest.