. p. 301,) Gagnier,
(ad Abulfedam, p. 9. Vie de Mahomet, tom. i. p. 118,) and Sale, (Koran,
p. 469-474.) * Note: Dr Weil believes in the epilepsy, and adduces
strong evidence for it; and surely it may be believed, in perfect
charity; and that the prophet's visions were connected, as they appear
to have been, with these fits. I have little doubt that he saw and
believed these visions, and visions they were. Weil, p. 43.--M. 1845.]

[Footnote 150: This poison (more ignominious since it was offered as
a test of his prophetic knowledge) is frankly confessed by his zealous
votaries, Abulfeda (p. 92) and Al Jannabi, (apud Gagnier, tom. ii. p.
286-288.)]

[Footnote 1501: Major Price, who writes with the authority of one widely
conversant with the original sources of Eastern knowledge, and in a very
candid tone, takes a very different view of the prophet's death. "In
tracing the circumstances of Mahommed's illness, we look in vain for
any proofs of that meek and heroic firmness which might be expected to
dignify and embellish the last moments of the apostle of God. On some
occasions he betrayed such want of fortitude, such marks of childish
impatience, as are in general to be found in men only of the most
ordinary stamp; and such as extorted from his wife Ayesha, in
particular, the sarcastic remark, that in herself, or any of her
family, a similar demeanor would long since have incurred his severe
displeasure. * * * He said that the acuteness and violence of his
sufferings were necessarily in the proportion of those honors with which
it had ever pleased the hand of Omnipotence to distinguish its peculiar
favorites." Price, vol. i. p. 13.--M]

[Footnote 151: The Greeks and Latins have invented and propagated the
vulgar and ridiculous story, that Mahomet's iron tomb is suspended in
the air at Mecca, (Laonicus Chalcondyles, de Rebus Turcicis, l. iii.
p. 66,) by the action of equal and potent loadstones, (Dictionnaire de
Bayle, Mahomet, Rem. Ee. Ff.) Without any philosophical inquiries, it
may suffice, that, 1. The prophet was not buried at Mecca; and, 2. That
his tomb at Medina, which has been visited by millions, is placed on the
ground, (Reland, de Relig. Moham. l. ii. c. 19, p. 209-211. Gagnier,
Vie de Mahomet, tom. iii. p. 263-268.) * Note: According to the
testimony of all the Eastern authors, Mahomet died on Monday the 12th
Reby 1st, in the year 11 of the Hegira, which answers in reality to the
8th June, 632, of J. C. We