an extensive open town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen, and the capital of a district, 56 miles north of Sanaa. It has a large castle, an extensive university, and about 5000 houses.

the name given to a kind of indurated pitch or turpentine which exudes spontaneously from various trees indigenous to most of the Indian islands. It is greatly used in Bengal and China for paying the bottom of ships, and for other purposes.