Note 104 — THE CITY OF BRASS.[104]

This is a true “City of Brass.” (Nuhás asfar = yellow copper), as we learn in Night dcclxxii. It is situated in the “Maghrib” (Mauritania), the region of magic and mystery; and the idea was probably suggested by the grand Roman ruins which rise abruptly from what has become a sandy waste. Compare with this tale “The City of Brass” (Night cclxxii). In Egypt Nuhás is vulg. pronounced Nihás.