| “ | Very gorgeous are the descriptions given of Irem, the City of Pillars (as the Koran styles it) supposed to have been erected by Shedad, the latest despot of Ad, in the regions of Hadramaut, and which yet, after the annihilation of its tenants, remains entire, so Arabs say, invisible to ordinary eyes, but occasionally and at rare intervals, revealed to some heaven-favoured traveller. | „ | |
| ~ Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., "Arabia" , HPL: Commonplace Book |
Irem, or Irim, is the City of Pillars visited by the Mad Arab in the desert.
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