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course will subsist between the living and the
dead ; that, when his eyes are closed to the light,
he will nevertheless be surrounded by those who
were the objects of his regard; feeling as if his
mental enjoyments would be perpetuated, and be
more delicious because less distracted by other
objects, will enter with courage into thai species
of immortality which sensibility prepares for him.
However great the respect paid to the deceased
by the Orientals, they do not think that the bo-
dies of their departed friends have any right to
injure those they leave behind them. Solitude
and silence too are best adapted to the frequent
and melancholy visits they receive. The last re-
treats of the dead are not mingled with the dwell-
ings of the living. The cemeteries are large, still,
separate enclosures, without the limits of the
town; and the bodies are covered with a bed of
earth, so thick as to be secure against derange-
ment from time: a delicate precaution, the source
of which may be traced to the nicest feelings.
Biers covered with cloth, of no determinate co-
lour, are employed in Egypt for conveying the
deceased to the place of interment. A turban,
the privileged head-dress of a Mussulman, is
placed on the cloth over the head; and that the
corpse may be distinguished in all respects from
that
course will subsist between the living and the
dead ; that, when his eyes are closed to the light,
he will nevertheless be surrounded by those who
were the objects of his regard; feeling as if his
mental enjoyments would be perpetuated, and be
more delicious because less distracted by other
objects, will enter with courage into thai species
of immortality which sensibility prepares for him.
However great the respect paid to the deceased
by the Orientals, they do not think that the bo-
dies of their departed friends have any right to
injure those they leave behind them. Solitude
and silence too are best adapted to the frequent
and melancholy visits they receive. The last re-
treats of the dead are not mingled with the dwell-
ings of the living. The cemeteries are large, still,
separate enclosures, without the limits of the
town; and the bodies are covered with a bed of
earth, so thick as to be secure against derange-
ment from time: a delicate precaution, the source
of which may be traced to the nicest feelings.
Biers covered with cloth, of no determinate co-
lour, are employed in Egypt for conveying the
deceased to the place of interment. A turban,
the privileged head-dress of a Mussulman, is
placed on the cloth over the head; and that the
corpse may be distinguished in all respects from
that