[11]“Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.”
[12]Pliny.
[13]Lib. ii. c. 29.
[14]See the Chapters on the [Commerce] and [Arts] of Meroe.
[15]See [Historical Appendix,] and [Account of the Ruins] of Gebel el Berkel, for further remarks on the arch.
[16]The first Egyptian edifice recorded is the pyramid built by Venephes, at Cochon; according to Eusebius from Manetho, the fourth king of the first dynasty. Africanus calls the town Cochomen. That valuable remark shows the great antiquity of this description of tomb.
[17]Virg. Georg. iv. 291.
[18]In the [Appendix] on the arts of Meroe I have mentioned many other reasons for this opinion.
[19]Assour, on the north side, I did not see.
[20]The Sheakhs and Meleks generally profess to be very religious, and observant of the laws of the Koran; but when they want another wife, and have already four, they divorce one of their old ones.