Note 36 — THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM. (ARABIC.)
Richard Francis Burton translation
The H. V. rejects this detail for “a single piece of mother-o’-pearl twelve yards long,” etc. Galland has une seule écaille de poisson. In my friend M. Zotenberg’s admirable translation of Tabari (i. 52) we read of a bridge at Baghdad made of the ribs of Og bin ’Unk (= Og of the Neck), the fabled King of Bashan.