’ PUNISHMENTS OF ADULTERY. 
and t|iey intcF the dead at the hour set apart for prayer. Their 
toRibs are exceedingly simple, and have no pretensions to architectural 
ciegapce. Among the northern nations, it was customary to bury 
ibci|, dead under hea of stones called cairns, or under barrows. 
"Thpf inhabitants of Thibet, it is said, neither bury nor burn their 
Scad, but expose them on the tops of the mountains. 
Social Custom. 
Colonel Gaenber ascribes the following custom to the subjects 
bf an Asiatic prince. Whenever the prince has a son, he is carried 
rbund from village to village, aud alternately suckled by every w'oman 
wbo has a child at her breast, until he is w^eaned. This cpstom, by 
establishing a kind of brotherhood between the prince and his sub- 
jeets, singularly endears them to each other.” 
Abjuration. 
3 In the ancient English customs, abjuration is an oath taken by a 
person guilty of felony ; who, having fled to a place of sanctuary, 
engages to leave the kingdom for ever. The following passage will 
furnish a curious illustration of this subject. “This heare thou Sir Coro- 
ner, that I, M. of H. am a robber of sheep or any other beast, and a mur- 
derer of one or of none, and a fellow of our lord the king of England, and 
teeause I have done many such euilles or robberies in bis land, I 
I dp abjure the land of our lord Edward king of England, and I shall 
haste me towards the port of (such a place), which thou hast given me, 
pud that I shall not go out of the high way, and if I doe, I will that I be 
taken as a robber and a felon of our lorde the king. And that at such a 
plpce I will diligently seeke for passage, and I will tarrie there but one 
flood and ebbe,if 1 can have passage; and unlesse I can have it itisucha 
place, I will goe every day into the sea up to my knees, assaying to 
pass over, and unlesse I can do this within fortie days, I will put my- 
selfe again into the church, as a robber and a felon of our lord the 
king : so God me helpe and his holy judgment, &c,” Rastalfs Col- 
lect. of Stat. p. 2. 
Punishments or Adultery. 
This crime has been punished in many ages and nations, though 
with diflferent degrees of severity. In many it has been capital, in 
Others venial, and only attended with slight pecuniary mulcts. Some 
of the penalties are serious, and even cruel ; others of a jocose and 
humorous kind. Even contrary laws have been enacted as punishments 
for adultery. • By some, the criminals were forbid marrying, in case 
they became single ; by others, they were forbid to marry any besides 
each other ; by some, they have been incapacitated from ever com- 
mitting the like crime again. Among the Egyptians, adultery in the 
man was punished by one thousand lashes with rods, and in the 
woman by the loss of her nose. Among the rich Greeks, adulterers 
were allowed to redeem themselves bv a pecuniary fine ; the woman^s 
