An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 . ack or white characters. Fewdoors but those of large houses are painted. They generally havean iron knocker and a wooden lock ; and there is usually a mount-ing-stone by the side. The ground floor apartments next the street have small woodengrated windows, placed sufficiently high to render it impossiblefor a person passing by in the street, even on horseback, to seethrough them. The windows of the upper apartments generallyproject a foot and a half, or more, and are mostly formed of tu
An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 . ack or white characters. Fewdoors but those of large houses are painted. They generally havean iron knocker and a wooden lock ; and there is usually a mount-ing-stone by the side. The ground floor apartments next the street have small woodengrated windows, placed sufficiently high to render it impossiblefor a person passing by in the street, even on horseback, to seethrough them. The windows of the upper apartments generallyproject a foot and a half, or more, and are mostly formed of turnedwooden lattice-work, which is so close that it shuts out much ofthe light and sun, and screens the inmates of the house from theview of persons without, while at the same time it admits the are generally of unpainted wood ; but some few are partiallypainted red and green, and some are entirely painted. A windo\l * With red ochre and lime wash. 6 THE MODERN EGYPTIANS. of this kind is caDed a roshan, or, more commonly, a meshre-beeyeh, which latter word has another api:)lication, that will be. DOOR OF A PRIVATE HOU^E. mentioned below. Several windows of different descriptions arerepresented in some of the illustrations of this work ; and sketches PRIVATE HOUSES. 7 of the most common patterns of the lattice-work, on a larger
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