Note 17 — Chapter II
Reading edition
El-Māridāny’s mosque is well illustrated in Ebers’ Egypt, ii. 70; and the minaret is separately engraved in i. 61. It is converted from the square into an octagon very near the base, and thence at the first stalactite gallery into the round; above the second gallery (there are but two) is a stone neck or pinnacle, twelve courses high supporting a conical bulb-like crown.