Footnotes:
[1] The substance of the following memoir is extracted from an address delivered at the funeral of Dr. Channing, by his colleague, the Rev. 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 Numbers xviii. 27; Deuteronomy xxv. 4; Isaiah xxviii. 27, 28; Ruth iii. v. 2-9.
[3] Every city in Egypt has a necropolis, 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.