ON VARIOUS PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE, PLACING THEM IN A NEW LIGHT; AND ASCERTAINING THE MEANING OF SEVERAL, NOT DETERMINABLE BY THE METHODS COMMONLY MADE USE OF BY THE LEARNED; ORIGINALLY COMPILED BY THE Rev. THOMAS HARMER, FROM RELATIONS INCIDENTALLY MENTIONED IN BOOKS OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS INTO THE EAST. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. III. POURTH EDITION, WITH A NEW ARRANGEMENT, MANY IMPORTANT ADDITIONS, AND INNUMERABLE CORRECTIONS. ADAM CLARKE, LL.D. Impellimur autem Natura, ut prodesse velimus quamplurimis imprimisque docendo, Cic. de Fin. lib. iii. LONDON: ALLEN, AND Co., Finsbury.square; and W. BAYNES, Paternoster-row. CONTENTS OF VOL. III. OBSERVATION I. Music joined with Mourning in the East................................ 11. Dead Bodies ornamented in the East ........... • Cutting off the Hair in Honour of the Dead.... 1. Funeral Rites of the Jews in Barbary......... · Going with the Head and Feet bare, a Mode of ". The Head sometimes shaved in Mourning for the 1. Noise and Tumult frequent at the Death of a Funeral Feasts used in the East............. frequent Visits paid to the Graves of departed Singing used in Funeral-Processions both by Men An Account of the Irish Caoinan, or Ancient Fu. Lamentations of the Family of Houssain...... Some farther Particulars relative to the Lamen- tation for Houssain........ ....... |