After the description I have given of the curtains or wall of my own tent, stiffened with lath and pointed to imitate a battlement, this enclosure of the Sultan’s will be easily understood, and it corresponds, even to the dimensions, with that which surrounded the tabernacle of the Jews in the wilderness, which was an hundred cubits long, fifty broad, and five high; the length was also from east to west. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON: Printed by S. & J. BENTLEY and HENRY FLEY, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. FOOTNOTES: [304] The Jews, even after their sojourn of centuries in the Holy Land, did not lose the habit of dwelling in tents, and probably, as here, there was a city and a nomade population; as, for instance, “The dwellers in tents,” Psa. lxxxiii. 6. “The tents of Israel,” Zech. xii. 7. “The tents of Kedar,” Song i. 5. [305] “Tihama, the abode of the sons of Maad. There they came for the winter.”--_Song on the death of Koulayb_. Tihama is derived from تهم Taham. See Edressi, _Georg._; Drummond’s _Origines_, vol. iii. p. 260. Ham’am--bath--is derived from the same word. [306] An equally near approach is _caldo_, cold. In the Greek, _Phrygia_, “burnt up”--the Latin, _frigus_. [307] I find that this is much the plan used in India, even to the ornaments. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. FIVE YEARS IN THE PACIFIC. By LIEUT. THE HON. FREDERICK WALPOLE, R.N. 2 vols. 8vo., 28s. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE DEAD SEA AND SOURCE OF THE JORDAN. By COMMANDER W. F. LYNCH, U.S.N. Royal 8vo., 21s. THE WESTERN WORLD; OR, TRAVELS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES IN 1847. By ALEXANDER MACKAY. 3 vols., post 8vo., 31s. 6d. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE WHITE NILE. From the German. By CHARLES O’REILLY. 2 vols., post 8vo., 21s. THE ISLAND OF SARDINIA; INCLUDING PICTURES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE SARDINIANS. By J. W. WARRE TYNDALE. 3 vols., post 8vo., 31s. 6d. ITALY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By JAMES WHITESIDE, Q.C. Second Edition. 3 vols., 31s. 6d. FRANK FORESTER AND HIS FRIENDS, OR SCENES AND SKETCHES OF SPORTING LIFE IN THE MIDDLE STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. By W. H. HERBERT. 3 vols., post 8vo., 31s. 6d. FIELD SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES OF AMERICA. By FRANK FORESTER. 2 vols., post, 21s. REMINISCENCES OF PARIS, TOURS, AND ROUEN IN 1847. A new edition of “The Parson, Pen, and Pencil.” By THE REV. G. M. MUSGRAVE. 1 vol., 21s. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE NIGER IN 1841. By CAPT. W. ALLEN, R.N. 2 vols., 8vo., 32s. VIENNA IN OCTOBER, 1848. By the HON. HENRY JOHN COKE. Post 8vo., 7s. 6d. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE INTERIOR OF NEW HOLLAND. Post 8vo., 2s. 6d. SIX MONTHS’ SERVICE IN THE AFRICAN BLOCKADE, IN 1848, IN COMMAND OF H.M.S. “BONETTA.” By COMMANDER FORBES, R.N. Post 8vo., 7s. 6d. VICISSITUDES OF THE ETERNAL CITY. By JAMES WHITESIDE, Q.C. Post 8vo., 12s. (Companion to “Italy in the Nineteenth Century.”) TWELVE YEARS’ WANDERINGS IN THE BRITISH COLONIES. By J. C. BYRNE. 2 vols, 8vo., 28s.