[Footnote 46: Pocock, Specimen, p. 60, 61. From the death
of Mahomet we ascend to 68, from his birth to 129, years
before the Christian aera. The veil or curtain, which is
now of silk and gold, was no more than a piece of Egyptian
linen, (Abulfeda, in Vit. Mohammed. c. 6, p. 14.)]