Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . I think,improved by some fresco paintings representing subjects of the chase, whichwere here considered the triumph of art. A double-barrelled gun waspointed out to me in particular as a chef oVoeuvre, and they were really notill executed by some Landseer of Damascus. One of the oddest ornamentswas the face of a large clock painted on the ceiling, with the name of aLondon maker on it. We were conducted afterwards to the baths, thekitchen, and bakery. The baths consisted
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . I think,improved by some fresco paintings representing subjects of the chase, whichwere here considered the triumph of art. A double-barrelled gun waspointed out to me in particular as a chef oVoeuvre, and they were really notill executed by some Landseer of Damascus. One of the oddest ornamentswas the face of a large clock painted on the ceiling, with the name of aLondon maker on it. We were conducted afterwards to the baths, thekitchen, and bakery. The baths consisted of five or six gorgeous rooms,paved with marble, the arched roofs and walls being painted in watercolours, with great taste and elegance. Jets of hot, tepid, and cold water,sprang from the pavement, and spread their varied temperatures through therooms. The kitchen, with sixteen cooks at work, much resembled the largevaulted monastic kitchens to be seen in our colleges, and, in the bakery, wefound many men and boys baking flat barley loaves for the consumption ofsome two thousand individuals. THE PALACE OF BTEDDIN. 161. Haudmill. We noticed some of those simple handmills of Scripture, deemed, in thetime of Moses, so essential to the domestic economy of his people, that heexempted them, as he also did the widows raiment, from the fangs of thepawnbroker. Deut. xxiv. 6—Noman shall take the upper or thenether millstone to pledge, for hetaketh a mans life to pledge.—Matt. xxiv. 41— Two women shallbe grinding at a mill, the one shall betaken, the other left. Two aregenerally employed in the process ofgrinding; they sit opposite eachother, with the mill between them,and work the stone backwards andforwards, by means of a stick pro-jecting obliquely from the uppersurface. Judges x. 53— And acertain woman cast a piece of mill-stone upon Abimelechs head, and allto break his skull. Some com-mentators wish to render this theupper stone of a handmill. If theHebrew text allows this
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