It is to be noted that another liberty that Sale takes with the Quran is that he explicitly inserts "Gog and Magog" into 18:96, - I guess, based on later commenters, - where the book says simply "their enemies". To this Sale adds a footnote:
Quote:The commentators say the wall was built in this manner. They dug till they found water, and having laid the foundation of stone and melted brass, they built the super-structure of large pieces of iron, between which they laid wood and coals, till they equalled the height of the mountains; and then setting fire to the combustibles, by the help of large bellows, they made the iron red hot, and over it poured melted brass, which filling up the vacancies between the pieces of iron, rendered the whole work as firm as a rock. Some tell us that the whole was built of stones joined by cramps of iron, on which they poured melted brass to fasten them