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It approaches more nearly than any other dialect to the old written Arabic, and is free from those affectations and perversions of the original sense, which abound in other provinces. I do not consider the Arabic language as on the decline: it is true, there are no longer any poets who write like Motanebbi, Abol' Ola, or Ibn el Faredh; and a fine flowing prose the Arabs never possessed.
The Arabian poets make frequent allusions to Shab Aamer; thus Ibn el Faredh says: "Is Shab Aamer, since we left it, still inhabited? Opposite to this building, a paved causeway leads towards the western hills, through which is an opening that seems artificial.
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