NOTES.
Page 1.—Caliph.
This title amongst the Mahometans implies the three characters of Prophet, Priest, and King: it signifies, in the Arabic, Successor, or Vicar; and, by appropriation, the Vicar of God on Earth. It is, at this day, one of the titles of the Grand Signior, as successor of Mahomet; and of the Sophi of Persia, as successor of Ali. Habesci's State of the Ottoman Empire, p. 9. D'Herbelot, p. 985.
Page 1.—one of his eyes became so terrible.
The author of Nighiaristan hath preserved a fact that supports this account; and there is no history of Vathek, in which his terrible eye is not mentioned.
Page 2.—Omar Ben Abdalaziz.
This Caliph was eminent above all others for temperance and self-denial; insomuch, that, ac-
