. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . slators: Cawls, roundtires like the moon, sweet balls, mufflers or spangled orna-ments, tablets or houses of the soul,^ etc., etc., etc. It wouldrequire half a volume to discuss these names, and then theywould be about as unintelligible as when we began. I can not muster sufficient courage to enter minutely intothe female costume, nor is it necessary. It varies from thatof the men mostly in the veils, which are very various, and in the head-dress,which, with the tar
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . slators: Cawls, roundtires like the moon, sweet balls, mufflers or spangled orna-ments, tablets or houses of the soul,^ etc., etc., etc. It wouldrequire half a volume to discuss these names, and then theywould be about as unintelligible as when we began. I can not muster sufficient courage to enter minutely intothe female costume, nor is it necessary. It varies from thatof the men mostly in the veils, which are very various, and in the head-dress,which, with the tarbushfor the basis, is compli-cated by an endless va-riety of jewels and otherornamental appendages;these, however, appear inthe engravings, and canbe better studied therethan on the persons whowear them. You willnot easily get permissionto inspect them ask it would be, inmost cases, a serious in-sult. It is a remarkable fact,that after the first men-tion of coats in Genesisiii. 21, we hear no moreabout garments of anykind for sixteen or eight-een hundred years. Shemand Japheth, after theDelugo, had a garment so ! 172 THE LAND jS^D THE BOOK. large that they laid it on each of their shoulders, in order tocover the nakedness of their drunken father without behold-ing his shame. Several hundred years later—in Abrahamsday—we read of shoes, and of raiment presented to Rebck-ah; and she covered herself with a veil when Isaac met in life, she had goodi// raiment of her son Esau with herin the house. Then comes the coat of many colors, the oc-casion of sad calamities to Joseph; Reuben, not finding thelad in the pit, rent his clothes—the first time this action ismentioned. Jacob also rent his; and, in after ages, thisexpression of grief becomes common, as the fabrics out ofwhich the garments were made became of a finer texture,and more easily torn. The materials first used were skins of animals, and manypeople are clothed with them at this day. Afterward linen
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