Note 19 — THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM. (ARABIC.)
Richard Francis Burton translation
In the H. V. the Prince digs a vat or cistern-shaped hole a yard deep. Under the ringed slab he also finds a door whose lock he breaks with his pickaxe and seeing a staircase of white marble lights a candle and reaches a room whose walls are of porcelain and its floor and ceiling are of crystal.