Obfervations &c. 28^ 



complained of: inftead likewife of fuch Expreflions of Sorrow 

 and Condolence, as may regard the deceafed^ the Compliments 

 turn upon the Perfon, who is the neareft concerned, {Berka 

 fe raffick) ABleJJing (fay his Friends) he uf on your Head. 



If we except a few Perfons, who are buried within \\\Qrhe Mamcr 



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Precinols of fome Sanctuary, the reit are carried out at 'ns^iuuhrts. 

 fmall Diftance from their Cities and Villages, where a great 

 Extent of Ground is allotted for that Purpofe. Each Family 

 hath a particular Portion of it, walled in like a Garden, where 

 the Bones of their Anceftors have remained undifturbed for 

 many Generations. For in thefe Enclofures ' the Graves are 

 all difl:in£t and feparate : having each of them a Stone, placed 

 upright, both at the Head and Feet, infcribed with the Name 

 of the Perfon who lieth there interred ; whilft the intermediate 

 Space is either planted with Flowers, bordered round with 

 Stone or paved all over with Tiles. The Graves of the prin- 

 cipal Citizens are further diftinguiihed by fome Square Cham- 

 bers or Cupolas ' that are built over them. Now as all thQ{QSomeTexu of 



^ , S(r fture al- 



different Sorts of Tombs and Sepulchres, with the very Walls '"'^'"^ '^^^'- 

 likewife of the Enclofures, are conftantly kept clean, white- 

 wailied and beautified, they continue, to this Day, to be an ex- 

 cellent Comment upon that Expreifion of our Saviours, where 

 he mentions the garniflnng of the Sepulchres, Matt. xg. 29. 

 and again (V. ιη.) where he compares the Scribes, Tharifees 

 and Hypocrites, to whited Sepulchres , which indeed appear 

 beautiful outward, but are within full of dead Mens Bones 

 and all uncleannefs. For the Space of two or three Months 

 after any Perfon is interred, the Female ' Relations go once a 

 Week to weep over the Grave and perform their Tarentalia * 

 upon it. 

 We are to obferve further with Regard to the feveral Build- ^f ^^'»^«ί 



tiled t7t theiT 



ings and Structures which I have defcribed, that both xh^Buiidm^t, 

 Plaifter and Cement, which are made ufe of, (particularly where 



1 Thefe feem to be the fame with the neeiMo' of the Antiexits. Thus Eurijtides Troad. 



1. 114T. 



Αλλ' itv xiSfis /sfeiSOAey 71 Kahaf 



2. Such Places probably as thefe are to be underftood, when the Dement ack,h iaid to have 

 his Dwellings among the Tombs. Mar. y. 3. 3 Notatum fuic in omnibus Sacris, foeminini 

 generis Vidlimas eife potiores &c. Vid. Alex, ab Alex. Gen. Dier. 1. 3. cap. 12. De paren- 

 talibus f. coenis fcrialibus. 4 Convivia qax in Parcntum aut propinquorum funere fieri 

 confucverunt. Vid. Alex, ab Alex, ut fupta. Lex. Pitifc, 



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