294- Phyjical and Mifcellaneous 



colled into one Lock, upon the hinder Part of the Head ; bind- 

 ing and plaiting (i Tet. 3. 3.) it afterwards about with Ribbons. 

 Where Kature hath been lefs liberal, there the Defed is to 

 be fupplyed by Art, and foreign Hair interwoven with the 

 natural. Some Commentators have imagined that Ahfalo7ns 

 Hair, m/hich was fold {1 Sam. 1 4. i6. ) for two hundred Shekels y 

 was to be apply ed to this Ufe. After their Hair is plaited up 

 in this Manner, they proceed to drefs their Heads by tying 

 clofe together, above the Lock I have defcribed, the feveral 

 Corners of a triangular Piece of Linnen,wrought into a Variety 

 of Figures by the Needle. Perfons of better Falliion wear a- 

 bove this a Sarmah, as they call it, which differeth not much in 

 Shape from the former Head Drefs, but is made of thin flexi- 

 ble Plates of Gold or Silver,varioufly cut through and engraved. 

 in Imitation of Lace. A Handkerchief of Crape, Gauze, Silk 

 or painted Linnen, bound clofe about the Sarniah, and falling 

 afterwards, without any Order, upon the Lock, compleats 

 the Head Drefs of the Moorijb Ladies. 

 The tinging But nouc of thcfc Ladies take themfelves to be compleatly 

 drefl^ed, 'till they have tinged the Hair and Edges of their Eye- 

 Lids with \_^l Ka-hol ' J^'^^^^'''] the Towder of Lead Ore. Now 

 as this Operation is performed by dipping firft into the Powder a 

 fmall wooden Bodkin of the Thicknefs of a Quill , and then 

 drawing it afterwards, through the Eye Lids, over the Ball of 

 the Eye, we fhall have a lively Image of what the Prophet 

 {Jer. 4. 30.) may be fuppofed to mean hy renting the Eyes with 

 (^^a Lead Ore) painting. The Sooty Colour, which is in this 

 manner conmiunicated to the Eyes, is thought to add a won- 

 derful Gracefulnefs to Perfons of all Complexions. The Practice 

 of it, no Doubt, is of great Antiquity : for befide the Inftance 

 already taken Notice of, we find that when Jezehet is faid 



1 This Word is rendred by Gol'tus and otiiers, Stibium, Antimonij Species j and fome- 

 times Collyrium. Tlie Heb. SnD Cahhol hath the fame Interpretation j and the Verb TrM^ 

 joyned with "^VV Ez.elz. 23. 40. is rendred thou pa'tntedft thy Ejes. '^"'3 (from whence proba- 

 bly the Lat. Rtcus) is taken in the like Signification, being rendred /intlmonhm. Stibium^ 

 quo ad tingenda nigrore cih'a, feu ad venuftandos oculos, peculiariter utebantur, color fub- 

 niger ex pdveribus Stibij confedus. Schindl. Lex. St. ^erom likewife upon thefe Words 

 ^'J3S ^133, If. y4. u. which we render (Z will lay) thy Stones with fair Colours, takes No- 

 tice, quod omnes praeterLXX.fimiliter tranftulerunt: viz.(y?^r»4»; ) in Stibio lapides tuos, in Ci- 

 militudinem comprae mulieris, t^ux oculos pinpt Stibio, ut pulchritudinem fignificet civitat/s. 

 ^ia therefore and iHD, J^ack^ denoting the fame rainecal Sublknce or Collyriutn, it may 

 be prefumed that what is called to this Day by the latter of thefe Names (which is a rich 

 Lead Ore, pounded into an impalpable Powder,) was the Mineral which they always made 

 ufe of. 



(x Kings 



their Eyes 

 TPith Lead 

 Ore. 



