. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. • The Bedouins have a singular appetite for eating tlie liver raw autl warm of any sheep they kill, before they begin to ilrcsthe flesh. May not the consecration of the liver be expressly levelled at such a custom among the Hebrews?t In Herodotus, Kiiterpe, Ixxi. J Antiq. iv. 8, 20. Chap. V.] THE LAW. 295 parapet or battlement to tlieir flat-roofed houses.* That such an iiijiuiction was needful, may1 intimate that terraced roofs were at that time less common in Syria than they were in Ei^ [Ho
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. • The Bedouins have a singular appetite for eating tlie liver raw autl warm of any sheep they kill, before they begin to ilrcsthe flesh. May not the consecration of the liver be expressly levelled at such a custom among the Hebrews?t In Herodotus, Kiiterpe, Ixxi. J Antiq. iv. 8, 20. Chap. V.] THE LAW. 295 parapet or battlement to tlieir flat-roofed houses.* That such an iiijiuiction was needful, may1 intimate that terraced roofs were at that time less common in Syria than they were in Ei^ [House-tops.—Modern Ef^yptian.] This was the more essential, as it has always been the custom in Syria for people to sleepon the tops of their houses during summer, and to resort to them on other occasions. Thelaw prohibiting the removal of stones set up to mark the boundaries of estates •j is inter-cstinii-, as illustrating a usage which existed also in Egypt. Much feeling and tendernessafflicted towards men, and even animals, is indicated in such injunctions as that which forbidany one to lay a stumbling-block in the way of the blind, or to speak reproachfully of thedeaf;I or that which promises a blessing to him who, when he takes a nest of birds or eggs,leaves the parent bird unmolested ;§ or that which forbids two such unequal animals as theox and the ass from being yoked together in labour.|| Ancient Customs.—There were usages of earlier times, so deeply rooted among the people,that it was not deemed prudent to attempt to abolish them altogether. But they were subjectedto
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