Note 289 — PART THE SECOND. (continued 2)

The word here rendered ‘a great city,’ namely ‘miṣran,’ is rendered by Marracci and Sale ‘Egypt,’ and is so understood by many learned Arabs; but according to a general rule, to have this signification it should be ‘miṣra:’ in some copies of the Ḳur-án, however, it is thus written.