Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . built thatmany of them are still as good as new. A striking peculiarity in the manners and customsof the inhabitants of the Hauran is, that the richestlive like the poorest, the only difference being thatthe former makes a display of his M^ealth on thearrival of strangers, while the hospitality of the latteris unattended with any di
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . built thatmany of them are still as good as new. A striking peculiarity in the manners and customsof the inhabitants of the Hauran is, that the richestlive like the poorest, the only difference being thatthe former makes a display of his M^ealth on thearrival of strangers, while the hospitality of the latteris unattended with any display. The ancient buildings afford spacious and conve-nient dwellings for a large portion of the moderninhabitants, and those who occupy them may havethree and four rooms for each family; but in newlybuilt villages the whole family, with its furniture,horses, saddles, guns, and yataghans, are all huddledtogether in one apartment. Here also they keeptheir wheat and barley in a reservoir (formed from aclay called hawara), which is about five feet deep bytwo in diameter. The chief articles of furniture area hand-mill, some copper kettles, and mats. In thericher houses some coarse woollen stuffs used princi-pally for carpets and horse-cloths are met with; real. ? ^ Of .r.:. VNIYERSITY Of .
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