GRAND CAIRO. 107 
ceremonies practised in honour of the dead in chap. 
almost every country of the earth : they are the '■ y 
same that Homer describes at the death of 
Hector^; and they are frequently alluded to in 
the Sacred Scriptures^: — '^Call for the mourn- 
ing WOMEN, THAT THEY MAY COME; AND SEND FOR 
CUNNING WOMEN, THAT THEY MAY COME: AnD LET 
THEM MAKE HASTE, AND TAKE UP A WAILING FOR 
US, THAT OUR EYES MAY RUN DOWN WITH TEARS, AND 
OUR EYELIDS GUSH OUT WITH WATERS." 
As one writer of travels has copied another, Exagge- 
, 1 1 • • 1 1 rated De- 
tne same exaggerated descriptions have been smptions 
continually given of the luxuries of Egijpt, during country. 
the inundation of the Nile, That its gardens, 
from the novelty of the plants found in them, 
are sometimes pleasing to the eye of a European, 
may be admitted ; and it has been before ac- 
knowledged, that the plantations adorning the 
sides of the canal may for a short time render a 
stranger unmindful of the filth and wretchedness 
(3) riaja V ti(rav uoiSoh;, 
0£»]va!v i%oi.py^<iUi, otTi (rrovoitrrav aoion> 
O'l /Av cL^ y^wiov, Itt) Ti ffTivx;^^otTO yvvccTxt;. / 
" Juxtaque coUoc&runt cautores 
Luctfis jiriiicipes: hi flebile carmen, 
Hi quidein lamentahaiitur : insuperque gemebant mulieres." 
Homeri lliados, lib.xxiv. />.425. Ed. S fond. Basil. 1606. 
(4) Jer. ix. 17, 13. See also 2 Chron. xxxv, 25. Judges xi. 39,40. 
^tnos V. 16. also Mark v. 38. &c. &c. 
