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these mortars are used. A sight of this process chap. 
is sufficient to explain the cause of the very . 
Arches. 
impalpable nature of the coffee powder used in 
Turhei) ; where the infusion more resembles the 
appearance of chocolate, than of coffee, as we 
prepare them for beverage in England. 
After visiliii^- this manufactory, we went to Curious 
. p , , IP Remains 
see a buildmg oi very great, although or un- poimed 
known, antiquity, used as a warehouse for 
keeping stores. It has a vaulted stone roof, 
with the remarkable appearance of pointed 
arches, caused by imitating the intersection of 
palm-branches : the sculptured trunks of the 
trees, whence these ramiiications proceed, are 
represented as being stationed in the four 
corners, and by the sides, of the vaulted cham- 
ber. This curious architectural relique has 
never been noticed nor described by any 
author; therefore it is impossible to learn either 
the age of the building, or its original use. 
Quaresmms is altogether silent upon the subject. 
He says only of antient Rosetta, that it was 
called Scheida'. This place may soon become 
of more importance than it is at present ; in con- 
sequence of the total cessation of pilgrimages 
(l) " Ab antiquis, at in mundi theatrn legitur, Scheida fuit appel- 
lata." Quaresmii Elucid. Terr. Sanct, torn. JI, p. 1003. Antv. \6Z9. 
