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complained of: inftead likewife of fuch Exprellions of Sorrovv 

 and Condolence, as may regard the deceafed, the Compliments 

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

 fe raffick) ABleJJing (fay his Friends) he upon pur Head. 



If we except a few Perfons, who are buried within xh^rhe Manmr 

 Precinfts of fome SanCluary, the reft are carried out at 2,°s^{Mncs. 

 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 diftind 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 diftinguilhed by fome Square Cham- 

 bers or Cupolas ^ that are built over them. Now as all thefe ^"'^^ ^'^^'^ "f 

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

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

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

 cellent Comment upon that Expreflion of our Saviours, where 

 he mentions the garni pj'mg of the Sepulchres, Matt. ig. 10 

 and again (V. ^7.) where he compares the -Sm^e-j", Tharifees 

 and Hypocrites, to whited Sepulchres , it/hkh indeed appear 

 beautiful outward, hut are within full of dead Mens Bones 

 and all uncleannef. 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 P^re";?/^//^" 

 upon it. 



We are to obferve further with Regard to the feveral Build. ^^^ c^^^? 

 ings and Stru6lures which I have defcribed, that both the BWIi^^r 

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



I Thefe feem to be the fame with the Utel^oKot of the Antients. Thus Euripides Troad. 

 I. 1141. / 



2 Such Places probably as thefe are to be undcrftood, when the Demontack^is faiJ to have 

 his Dwellings among the Tombs. Mar. j. j. 3 Notatum fuit in omnibus Sacris, fceminini 

 generis Vidlimas elfe potiores &c. Vid. Alex, ab Alex. Gen. Dier. \^. cap. 12. De paren- 

 talibus f. ccEnis ferialibus. 4 Convivia quse in Parentum aut propincjuorum funere fieri 

 confueverunr. Vid. Alex, ab Alex, ut fupsa. Lex. Pitifc. 



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