Mamals or Ovens. 87 



The Mamals or Ovens of Egypt, of which 

 De Reaumur in a fit of real enthusiasm, 

 says that country ought to be more proud 

 than of her pyramids, are scarcely above 

 nine feet in height, but they have an extent 

 in length and breadth which renders them 

 remarkable, and yet they are more so in 

 their internal structure. The centre of tho 

 building is a very narrow gallery, usually 

 about the width of three feet, extending 

 from one end of the buildip«: to the other, 

 the height of which is from eight to nine 

 feet ; the structure for the most part of brick. 

 The entrance into the oven is through the 

 gallery, which commands the whole extent 

 of it, and facilitates the several operations 

 that are necessary, to keep the eggs to the 

 proper degree of heat. The oven has a 

 door, not very wide, and only as high as it 

 is broad : this door and many others in use 

 in the mamals, are commonly no more than 

 round holes. 



The Gallery is a corridor, with this dif- 

 ference from our common corridors, which 

 have only one row of rooms, whereas that 



