Note 19 — XII. The Reward of God’s Messenger.

This dungeon may still be seen, and is thus described by one who has recently visited it: “It is in shape like a champagne bottle, the neck or narrow part might be nine feet deep, and the whole depth twenty-four feet. It is six feet wide at the top, but widens into about eighteen below. Prisoners were let down into it by means of a chain, which was fastened to an iron bar placed across the mouth of it. There are no doors or windows.”