Obfer vat ions &c. 285 



and confequently avaCa/f^v and JcamCotjveiv are very applicable to 

 Structures in fuch a Situation. 



The Eaftern Method of building may further affift us, mTb^T.wpie 

 accounting for the particular Structure of the Houfe of 7)agonJ 

 {Judg.it>) and the great Numbers of People that were buried 

 in the Ruins of It, by pulling down the two principal Pillars. 

 We read ( Ver. X7. ) that about three thoufand Terfons were 

 upon the Roof to behold while Sampfon made Jport. Samp [on 

 mult therefore have been in a Court or Area below them, and 

 confequently the Temple will be of the fame Kind with the 

 antient Te^'>i or facred Enclofures, furrounded only in Part or 

 altogether with fome cloyftered Building. Several Palaces and 

 Dou-whias, as they call the Courts of Juftice in thefe Qowvi-rhevajhion 

 tries, are built in this Fafliion; where, upon their Feftivals,"^^'' 

 a great Quantity of Sand is ftrewed upon the Area for the 

 (?(?//<7-7^<^«) Wreftlers to fall upon, whilft the Roof of the Cloy- 

 fters, round about, are crowded with Spectators. I have often 

 feen feveral Hundreds of People diverted in this Manner upon 

 the Roof of the 2)^'s Palace at Algiers ; which, like many 

 more of the fame Quality and Denomination, hath an advanced 

 Cloylter, made in the Fafhion of a large Pent-Houfe, fupport- 

 ed only by one or two contiguous Pillars in the Front, or elfe 

 in the Centre. In fiich open Strudtures as thefe, in the Midft 

 of their Guards and Counfellors, are the Bafljas, Kadees, and 

 other great Officers affembled to diftribute Juftice and tranfaft 

 the publick Affairs of their Provinces. Here likewife they have 

 their publick Entertainments, as the Lords and others of the 

 Thiliftines had in the Houfe of Dagon. Upon a Suppolition 

 therefore that in the Houfe of T>agon, there was a cloyftered 

 Structure of this Kind, the pulling down the Front or Centre 

 Pillars only which fupported it, would be attended with the 

 like Cataftrophe that happened to the Thiliftines. 



The Mofques and Sepulchres of thefe Countries, are other 7Z^^f<?/z>/w 

 Structures, which ftill remain undefcribed. The firft, which Morqu'es. 

 they pronounce [c)-=?"*^ '^Mejg-jidy are built exadtly in the Fafliion 

 of our Churches, where inftead of fuch Seats and Benches as 

 we make ufe of, they only ftrew the Floor with Mats, upon 



I i.e. The Place of HtimUiatlon, from oj:^-^', [Heb. HJC] Humiliavit fc, procubuic: pec, 

 Reverentix ergo. fpec. frontem imponens terras, ad comraonltrandam fupplicis animi de- 

 jedionem atqiie abncgationem fui. Vid. Got. in voce. 



B b b b X which 



