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and immoderate wailings. The whole, Martin 

 Stanihurst might also have used for an argu- 

 ment to prove them Egyptians ; for so in Scrip- 

 ture, it is mentioned that the Egyptians lamented 

 for the death of Joseph. Others think this cus- 

 tom to have come from the Spaniards, for they 

 doe imminsorably likewise bewayle their dead. 

 But the same is not proper Spanish, but hea- 

 thenish, brought thither first, either by the Scy- 

 thians or the Mores, that are Africans, and long 

 possessed the country. For it is the manner of 

 all pagans and infidels to be intemperate in their 

 bewaylings of their dead, for that they had no 

 further hope of salvation. And this ill custome 

 also is specially noted by Diodorus Siculus to 

 have been in the Scythians, as is yet amongst 

 the northern Scots at this day, as you may read 

 in their chronicles." 



The situation of Cork is particularly striking. 

 The old town, being built on the side of a hill, 

 forms an amphitheatre, at the foot of which the 

 river Lee formerly ran. In the process of time 

 the course of the river changed, and its breadth 

 has been confined, by which means a consider- 

 able space of fiat ground has been gained, and 

 on which the more modern part of the town is 

 built. Some of the principal streets were inter- 

 sected with canals capable of admitting vessels 



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