[Footnote 1: See the description of the city and country of
Al Yamanah, in Abulfeda, Descript. Arabiae, p. 60, 61. In
the xiiith century, there were some ruins, and a few palms;
but in the present century, the same ground is occupied by
the visions and arms of a modern prophet, whose tenets are
imperfectly known, (Niebuhr, Description de l'Arabie, p. 296
- 302.)]