^04- Phyfical mid Mifcellaneous 



grinding at the Mill, or elfe in preparing their Flour intoCjiJ. 

 caffowe, 7)weeda and fiich like Compofitions. Neither is this 

 all ; for, to finifli the Day, at the Time of the Evefiing, ei^en 

 the Time that Women go out to draw Water, (Gen. x^. ii.) 

 they are ftill to fit themfelves out with a Pitcher or a Goats 

 Skin ' ; and tying their fucking Children behind them, trudge 

 it in this Manner two or three Miles to fetch Water. Yet in 

 the Midft of all thefe Labours and Incumbrances, neither 

 thefe Country Ladies, nor thofe of better Fafliion in Cities, will 

 lay afide any of their Ornaments ; neither their Nofe -Jewels, 

 (which are ftill ufed by the Levant Arabs:) neither their 

 Bracelets, Shackles ^ or Ear Rings, which are all very Cum- 

 berfome ; neither the tinging their Eyelids with Lead Ore ; fo 

 prevalent is Cuftom, even in Barbary, and fo very zealous are 

 thefe Ladies to appear in, what they call, the Mode and Fafliion. 

 The MooriRi Thc grcatcft part of the MooriJJj Women would be reckoned 

 c/(,i/Xe;fLft- Beauties, even in Great Britain ; as their Children certainly 

 ^'^"^' have the fineft Complexions of any Nation whatfoever '. The 

 Boys indeed, by wearing only the Tiara, are expofed fo much 

 to the Sun, that they quickly attain the Swarthinefs of the 

 Arab\ but the Girls, keeping more at Home, preferve their 

 Beauty 'till they are thirty, at which Age they are ufually paft 

 Child-bearing. 1 1 fometimes happens that one of thefe Girls is 

 a Mother at eleven^ and a Grandmother at two and twenty : 

 and as their Lives are ufually of the fame Length withthofe of 

 the Europeans, there have not been Inftances wanting among 

 thefe Matrons of feme who have lived to fee their Children of 

 many Generations. 

 The crys the ^^ ^jj t^g^- principal Entcrtalnments, and to fhew Mirth 



Women make ^ '^ 



at their Feap^^^ Gladttefs upon Other Occafions, the Women welcome the 



I There is frequent Mention made of thefe Skins in the H. Scriptures. Thus DOH 

 Gen. 21. 14, I y and 19. "INJ or TISJ JoJ]}. p. 4. Judg. 4. 19. i Sum. 16. ip. Pf. <^6. 8. and 

 119. 83. ^21 ^ '^'""- ^- 2.4- 3"^ ^°- 3- J^^' ^i' 12. and escrwr Mat. 9. 17. Mar. 2. 22. 

 Luki S- 37* ^vhich /hould be rendered Skins, are improperly interpreted Bottles. 2 The 

 tinkling Ornaments of their Feet. If.j.KJ. 3 The Word Moor is generally luppofed toconvey the 

 Ideao(a Perfon of a dark and fwarthyComplexion : whereas it only denotes theSituation of the 

 Country he inhabits. For ll^D fignifies a Ferry, or Narrow part of the Sea, Fretum, TrA- 

 jcMs, &c. '"i^i^Q {Ma'vri) confequently will be the fame as (Trajellaneus feu ad TrajeHum 

 vivens) a Perfon who lives near fuch a Place; juft as the Moors are fituated with Rcfpeft to 

 the Straights of Giirj/r^r, the Fretum Gaditanum or Herculeum of the Antients. Vid. Per'ttfol. 

 Cofmogr. Edit. T. Hyde. p. 48. But Bochart deduceth the Word from another Original. 

 T'lmO Mauri, quafi poflremi vel occidentales didi, ab THX quod & pofterius& Occiden- 

 tem fonat. Plene fcriberetur Mauharin, fed Gutturales paffim elidi nemo eft qui nefciat. 

 Boch, Chan. 1. i. cap. xj. 



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