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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.10358#0405
A SELLER OF LANTERNS.
In houses provided with latticed windows only, candles are usually sheltered by lanterns like those suspended above. One such lantern, with two
or three wax candles in it, placed on the ground or on a low stool in a central position, is considered sufficient to light a large saloon.
CAIRO,
"^HE view of Cairo after the buried cities of Goshen is like the passing from death unto
life. Behind us are the desolate mounds that mark the site of a far-off civilisation,
magnificent while it lasted, but inexpressibly melancholy in its ruin ; before us lies the chief
seat oi Arabian commerce and of Muslim culture — decaying too, like all Eastern cities, but still
In houses provided with latticed windows only, candles are usually sheltered by lanterns like those suspended above. One such lantern, with two
or three wax candles in it, placed on the ground or on a low stool in a central position, is considered sufficient to light a large saloon.
CAIRO,
"^HE view of Cairo after the buried cities of Goshen is like the passing from death unto
life. Behind us are the desolate mounds that mark the site of a far-off civilisation,
magnificent while it lasted, but inexpressibly melancholy in its ruin ; before us lies the chief
seat oi Arabian commerce and of Muslim culture — decaying too, like all Eastern cities, but still