Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . —also Edom shall be a desolation, &c. Of all the ruins of Petra, the mausoleums and sepulchresare among the most remarkable, and they give the clearestindication of ancient and long-continued royally, and ofcourtly grandeur. Their immense number corroboratesthe accounts given of their successive kings and pr
Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . —also Edom shall be a desolation, &c. Of all the ruins of Petra, the mausoleums and sepulchresare among the most remarkable, and they give the clearestindication of ancient and long-continued royally, and ofcourtly grandeur. Their immense number corroboratesthe accounts given of their successive kings and princesby Moses and Strabo; though a period of eighteen hundredyears intervened between the dates of their respective rec-ords concerning them. The structure of the sepulchresalso shows that many of them are of a more recent date. Great, .says Burckhardt, must have been the opulenceof a city which could dedicate such monumenls to thememory of ils rulers. But the long line of the kings andof the nobles of Idumea has for ages been cut off; they arewithout any representative now, without any menrvorial butthe multitude and the magnificence of their sepul-chres. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kirgdom,(or rather, they shall call, or summon, the nobles thereof,).
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