ON VARIOUS

PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE,

PLACING THEM IN A NEW LIGHT;

AND

ASCERTAINING

THE MEANING OF SEVERAL, NOT DETERMINABLE BY THE METHODS
COMMONLY MADE USE OF BY THE LEARNED;

ORIGINALLY COMPILED

BY THE

REV. THOMAS HARMER,

FROM

RELATIONS INCIDENTALLY MENTIONED IN BOOKS OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS INTO THE EAST.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

FOURTH EDITION,

WITH A NEW ARRANGEMENT, MANY IMPORTANT ADDITIONS, AND
INNUMERABLE CORRECTIONS.

BY

ADAM CLARKE, LL. D.

Impellimur autem Naturâ, ut prodesse velimus quamplurimis imprimisque docendo,
... Itaque non facile est invenire qui, quod seiat ipse, non tradat alteri.

.....

Cic. de Fin. lib. iii.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

CHAP. VII.

DIFFERENT METHODS OF DOING HONOUR TO THE DEAD.

OBSERVATION I. Music joined with Mourning in

the East....

II. Dead Bodies ornamented in the East....

III. Cutting off the Hair in Honour of the Dead....

IV. Funeral Rites of the Jews in Barbary...

V. Going with the Head and Feet bare, a Mode of

honouring the Dead.....

VI. The Head sometimes shaved in Mourning for the

Dead.......

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VII. Noise and Tumult frequent at the Death of a

Person in the East...

VIII. Funeral Feasts used in the East....

IX. Frequent Visits paid to the Graves of departed

Relatives, with an Account of various other

Modes of Mourning for the Dead....

X. Mourners at Funerals....

XI. Singing used in Funeral-Processions both by Men

and Women....

XII. An Account of the Irish Caoinan, or Ancient Fu-

neral-Cry....

XIII. Lamentations of the Family of Houssain......

XIV. Some farther Particulars relative to the Lamen-

tation for Houssain.....

XV. Beating the Arms used in Mourning for the

Dead...

VOL. III.