Tkeir Beds. 



The Stairs. 



Tie Doors. 



■2^6 Phyfical and Mifcellmeous 



Ezehel (13. 18. and το). At one End of each Chamber, there 

 is a Uttle Gallery , raifed four or five Foot above the Floor, 

 with a Balluftrade in the Front of It. Here They place their 

 Beds ; a Situation frequently alluded to in the H. Scriptures '. 



The Stairs are fometimes placed in the Porch , fometimes 

 at the Entrance into the Court. When there is one or more 

 Stories, they are afterwards continued, through one Corner 

 or other of the Gallery to the Top of the Houfe , whither 

 they conduft us through a Door , that is conftantly kept ihut 

 to prevent the domeftick Animals from fpoiling the Terrace, 

 and thereby the Water which falls from thence into the Cifterns 

 below the Court. This Door, like moil others we meet with 

 in thefe Countries, is hung, not with Hinges, but by having 

 the Jamb formed at each End into an Axle Tree or Pivot ; 

 whereof the uppermoft, which is the longeft, is to be received 

 into a correfpondent Socket in the Lintel , whilft the other 

 falls into a Cavity of the like Faihion in the Threiliold. The 

 Stone Door taken Notice of by Mr. Maundrel \ in His De- 

 fcription of the Royal Sepulchres at Jerufalem, is exaolly of 

 this Faihion. 

 Nostairsupof, J do uot remcmbcr ever to have obferved the Stair Cafe con- 

 S/r^Htyr/dufted along the outfide of the Houfe ; neither indeed will 

 the Contiguity and Relation , which the Houfes bear to the 

 Street, and to each other, (exclufive of the fuppofed Privacy 

 of Them) admit of any fuch Contrivance. However we may 

 go up or come down them, by the Stair-Cafe I have defcribed, 

 without entring into any of the Offices or Apartments, and 

 confequently without interfering with the Bufinefs of the Houfe; 

 which will be explanatory enough of {Μαΐ.τΔ^.ιη.) Let him 

 that is upon the Houfe Top not come down to take any Thing 

 out of the Houfe, provided the Adion there recorded requireth 

 any fuch Interpretation. 

 The Tops of The Top of the Houfe, which is always flat, is covered 

 %. """^" with a ftrong Plaifter of Terrace ; from whence, in the Frank 

 Language, It hath attained the Name of The Terrace-, a Word 

 made ufe of likewife in feveral Parts of thefe Countries. It 

 is furrounded by two Walls ; the outermoft whereof is partly 



I ThoH rventeft up to thy Fathers Btd— to my Couch. Gen, 49. 4. Thoufialt mtcomednvn 

 from tbjt Bed on which thou art gone up. 2 Kings i. 6. and 16. I will not go up nito my Bed. 

 Plal. 132. 3. 2 V id. M^undrel's Jomneyiwm .Aleppo to Jeruftlem. \}.77- Ed. Oat. 1707. 



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