1809. ] Dilletanti Tourist.—No. V’. 459 
-Avaunt. Why dost thou weep? What For the Menthly Magazine. 
would’st thou bave ? THE DILLETANTI TOURIST, 
NATHAN. 
© this is horrible !— 
SALADIN. 
Ay; horrible. 
i did not kill them. Dost thou claim of me 
thy children? 
NATHAN. 
Goda _ 
SALADIN. 
Do bury them stil! deeper: 
look, there peeps out askull—in with it. 
NATHAN. 
Oh——. 
what a delirium this. 
SALIDIN. 
Up! up! we storm it— 
Forward, my brothers, brisk ! and down with 
. them! 
The dogs are yielding. On, on, we shall 
have it. 
Mine is Jerusalem! Damascus, mine ! 
Mine is all Syria ! 
NATHAN. 
Teach me, Lord, to think 
that I must die! 
SALADIN. 
What’s all yon howling for ? 
Give quarter now 3; and offer up to God 
a tenth ofall rhe booty. There amosk, 
and here a school, and there an hospital, 
shall be erected. We shall need them— 
NATHAN. 
Sittah, 
1 my dear Sittah, welcome! 
SITTAH approaches. 
What’s the matter ? 
NATHAN. 
Alas! ! thou hear’st; thy brother is delirious. 
SITTAH. 
My Saladin delirious? God! 
SALADIN. 
Keep back ! 
Along this narrow foot-path climbs the way 
into the fortress. They are all asleep :— 
hush, follow me in stillness. We shall 
manage 
to take it by surprize. Hush, 
SITTAH. 
Saladin 
is for to- -day too weary for more toil. 
What if be would repose a little hour 
under the shade, and “ee with fresher. 
strength 
assail the foritele 
SALADIN. 
Ay Iwill, 1 will. 
Keep watch upon your posts, my comrades 
all, 
least they should fall upon us. 
NATHAN AND SITTAR, 
We are going. 
SALADIN. 
Mind ; in an hour or so I shall be waking. 
( Lo be continued, ) 
Or LETTERS from an AMATEUR Of ART, 
in LONDON, (0 @ FRIEND near MAN~ 
CHESTER. No. V. 
N pursuing my ° J}, through the 
Town ery Collect. / of Antiquities, 
the next department usat [ shall attempt 
describing, isthat of the Roman SEput- 
CHRAL ANTIQUITIES, which are depo- 
sited in the fifth room. This room is of 
excellent proportions, vaulted, and lighted 
from a dome; the ceiling is supported by 
ante of the Doric order, and in the anter= 
pilasters are niches and recesses in whicia 
are deposited sepulchral urns with in- 
scriptions of great antiquity and consi- 
derable beauty. In the centre of the 
floor is a beautiful Mosaic pavement 
Jately discovered in digging the four- 
dations for the new buildings at the Baa'k 
of England, and presented to the Britis’ 
Museum by the directors of that opulent 
establishment. 
They are mostly taken from the ceme- 
teries of the Romans, of which every ta- 
mily of consequence had one appropriat- 
ed to itself. The largest and most an- 
cient cemeteries were those of Memphus, 
which have been discovered \near that 
city ina circular plain, nearly four leagues 
in diameter, which is called the Plain ef 
Mummies. The care of the Egyptians 
for the preservation of the body after 
death, exceeded even their wishes for the 
conservation of the memory of their i- 
lustrious dead. The Greeks and Romans 
did not so anxiously preserve the mortal 
relics of the body; they contented them- 
selves with burying them. The custoua 
of burning their dead and preserving tins 
ashes appears to have arisen more from 
a wish of preventing violation, than the 
mere destruction of the body. The Re- 
mans paid great veneration to the remains 
of their forefathers; they erected ceme- 
teries to their honour, and deposited the 
ashes of each individual in its own distinet 
‘ 
catacomb, in a cinerary urn, anscribed — 
with the name of the party, whose me 
mory is thusrecorded. The contents of 
this room are principally of these cinerary 
and sepulchural urns and monumental 
inscriptions, each deposited alter the an- 
cient manner in a catacomb. 
No. 1, 18 2 monumental inscription to 
‘Q. Aufidius Generosus, formerly in the 
collection of Thomas Hollis, esq. 
presented by eh to the Museum; tege= 
ther with No. 2, to Delia Fortunaia, 
Aelius Telesphorus, and others; No. 3, 
to M. Nevius Proculus; No.-5,° to: T. 
Sex. Agatha; No, 20, to Eutychia; No, 
ras) 
22, 
and 
