Footnotes:[1]The substance of the following memoir is extracted from an address delivered at the funeral of Dr. Channing, by his colleague, theRev.Ezra S. Gannett.[2]The mode still pursued by the Egyptians is precisely the same as that practised by them and other eastern nations formerly, as described in Numbersxviii.27; Deuteronomyxxv.4; Isaiahxxviii.27, 28; Ruthiii. v.2-9.[3]Every city in Egypt has anecropolis, or burial-place, so situated as to be secure from injury by the inundations of the Nile. In Upper Egypt these “silent cities” are hollowed out of the mountain-sides.
[1]The substance of the following memoir is extracted from an address delivered at the funeral of Dr. Channing, by his colleague, theRev.Ezra S. Gannett.
[2]The mode still pursued by the Egyptians is precisely the same as that practised by them and other eastern nations formerly, as described in Numbersxviii.27; Deuteronomyxxv.4; Isaiahxxviii.27, 28; Ruthiii. v.2-9.
[3]Every city in Egypt has anecropolis, or burial-place, so situated as to be secure from injury by the inundations of the Nile. In Upper Egypt these “silent cities” are hollowed out of the mountain-sides.