[Footnote 115: See the Koran, (passim, and especially c. 7,
p. 123, 124, &c.,) and the tradition of the Arabs, (Pocock,
Specimen, p. 35 - 37.) The caverns of the tribe of Thamud,
fit for men of the ordinary stature, were shown in the
midway between Medina and Damascus. (Abulfed Arabiae
Descript. p. 43, 44,) and may be probably ascribed to the
Throglodytes of the primitive world, (Michaelis, ad Lowth de
Poesi Hebraeor. p. 131 - 134. Recherches sur les Egyptiens,
tom. ii. p. 48, &c.)]