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* sfo » taf the men wore dean white turbans , and the women wore wrapped ia blue veils , beneath which a tantoor , that i a variable article of Drase luxury which is worn day and night , made a conspicuous figure . Hiis we bad now an opportunity of examining ; fur our host , aoconri * panied by his wife , came to our tent , attracted by the novelty of tea *
which they both drank , when well sweetened , with apparent sfttisfotqtion . Tbe iady % in return , satisfied our curiosity by taking off Jaer tantoor , wiucb was of silver , rudely embossed with , flowers , atari ? , and other devices . In length it was , perhaps , something more than a foot ; but ia shape had little resemblance to a horn , being- a mere hollow tube * increasing in size from the diameter of an inch and a half « t one e ^ r
tremity to three inches at the other , where it terminates like the mouth of a trumpet . If the smaller end were closed , it might serve . as a drink- * ing cup ; and in Germany glasses of the same form a&d size are still occasionally used . This strange ornament , placed oa a- ctiahiofi * is se ~ ciirejy fixed to the upper part of the forehead by two siik co * d » , xv ^ tobv after surrounding the bead , hang behind nearly to fcbtf g ^ o uiM ^ tejeai fe : nating in large tasseis , that , among the better classes , * re capped with silver /—Ibid . vol . ii . p . 92 . , i , i ,
Both travellers visited Lady Hester Stanhope at h « r tmmtitairt reftdence near Saidee ( the aacient Sidon ) . Theid ^ a of her ladyship , left on the mind by the description of each , is extremely different Dr . Hogg presents to our imagination a clever ; enfhiisiastic , yet sensible woman ; M . de Lamartine a mystical visionary , warna-hearted and well-meaning certainly , but a little
mad , who practises astrology , and is looking for another Messiah * with whoip slie evidently expects shortly to ride in triumph into Jeruaaleuau There ib » however , no contradiction in these reports . Dr . Hogg may only have given us one portion of the con versatMmheitad # kh her ; or it may be that the very different cha-TCMftera of tier- tiw visitors gave it on the two occasions a totally dMerten ? torn , and"she may be quite sane on all points except the stars and thp tt ^ w JeniScrleTti .
The *« if JehJsiiem it is indeed ! Lamartme ' s imaginatibh suppKed soifajetji ^ ig of poetry and beauty to the city at first Tie w , wtu « h eyep h # Wjl * pbliged to confess on nearer inspoctifati tttl ! not in Qf \ y d $ g $ qe bejong to it . But Che everlasting features 0 ? ualure supg stojtber ^; and standing oa the Mount of Olives ^ pj by . tW aide <» f the bm ^ k Cedron . we can excuse h ^ i \ i his eye bis
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 788, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/32/
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