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SEPULCHRES.
J. he rites of sepulture have been observed by all nations
with a religious solicitude, and tombs and mausoleums are
among the most eminent remains of antiquity. Where rocks
afforded a convenient opportunity, it was an idea at once
natural, and of peculiar propriety, to excavate in these silent
retreats the habitations of the dead. The greatest part of
the Hebrew sepulchres were hollow places dug in rocks; as
for example, .that bought by Abraham for the burying of
Sarah*; and those of the kings of Judah and Israel. In
*. Gen. xxiii. 4. 6.
J. he rites of sepulture have been observed by all nations
with a religious solicitude, and tombs and mausoleums are
among the most eminent remains of antiquity. Where rocks
afforded a convenient opportunity, it was an idea at once
natural, and of peculiar propriety, to excavate in these silent
retreats the habitations of the dead. The greatest part of
the Hebrew sepulchres were hollow places dug in rocks; as
for example, .that bought by Abraham for the burying of
Sarah*; and those of the kings of Judah and Israel. In
*. Gen. xxiii. 4. 6.