Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-11-02
Oriental SILK Bucking CHAM.


Oriental SILK Bucl<in gham.
We proceed with notice of this late but neverto-
again. Member-of the British Parliamens lecture
We shall give the whole Of it in his own way and
words, and the American people Judge for them
selves how far his holdings forth enlighen them
Egypt is watered by the Nile. Nubia begins where
one end of Egypt ends and Arabia begins at the other
end Some that Egypt once broader, but IN
less you suppose that the mountains, some fine morning.
took march and came embrace each other'
don't see how it could have been broader.
"Plutarch wrote very profound work about the wor
ship of Isis and Osiris in which he says that no dead
body allowed to be buried any spot OF grouhu
which afforded sustenance to the living And mus he
dead bodies, when embalmed, were removed from 'no
hot moisture the valley and preserved fresh as ireSh
as dead bodies could be- And the Nile now ruaS Up
to within few feet of where these dead bodies are
Gan ancient writer says, that man could stand on
one border or boundary of Egypt and place his neigh
Dor the opposite border and hold conversation
Now this would seem impossible except to those VINO
had the lungs of But the Nile runs through
rocky chasm where it is not than three quarters
efa mile WIDE and in theee parts there is no Egypt ex
cept what is to be found on the surface of the river
have been in Egypt and have walked out on hue
morning than once, and have placed man on
side of Egypt and talked him and heard him. and ne
has heard me very distinctly Very astonishing all this
These rocks with the Nile running through them are
like the cliffs of Dover and Calais in the English Chan
nell with the Of Dover, the waters between the
hills belonging equally to both For in Egypt there IS
rock side in Lydia and one rock or the 9TH
er side in Arabia that there is ia that part Egypt
actually no Egypt.
"The scriptures speak Of the Nile the great river Of
Egypt And it only speaks Of one other river ia the
way. that is the great river Euphrates Now the
scripture doesnot deal in cpithetsand don't know.
though have travelled the east in search fit where
the great river Euphrates situated but we do
know where the Nile was and that in the place
where it is
"The Grecian and Roman literature, speaks profound
ly of the Nile and its celebrity, is prominent that
must direct your attention to it. The Nile had seven
mouths. Seven is a sacred number-all nations al
ways thought so-the Jews had great veneration for
the number $50 had other nations of the Ras-some
had great a reverence for it that they were allowed
to marry seven wives With the Greeks, the number
had sort Of charm With the Romans the Hindoos, the
Chinese the Arabians and Chsldeans and Babylonans
and Syrians and Persans it was considered a magi
cal number think that all this must be owing to some
traditional reverence of the Sabbath, before mankind
tunatey characterzes oo many in the present day.
"In six days the world made the seventh was
the Sabbath Of the Lord thy God and in remembrance
Scripture says Remember that thou keep holy the
Sabbath" 1t doesn't say remember" to any thing
do with the number For there is nothing So
likely to be remembered as that which is consong and
consolatory and comfortable This is worth remember
ing.
"Well, then, this proves that the Nile had seven
mouths; there was the Pelusac mouth, Tanitic do.
Mendesian do, Sebennytic do, Busirus do. Ponctus
do. Campus do
Every Of these seven mouths had big city on
it, and ships there and unloaded they do at big
cities placed the mouth Of rivers in the present day
This may strange ssme but such and is the
fact
Again. the Nile is an unaided current. Look at
your own country America and you will great RI
YER, and many little rivers-one great artery
and many little veins Some navigabe--
some are not but allhavc tributaries The Nile don't
have snyt is fed by nothing-it different from every
other river in the world And Herodotus, in speaking
Of the Danube and the Dmeper and the Borosenss, and
the Nile, says, And the Nile-the Ne-but the Nile
dsdains comprehension whilst all other rivers have
tributaries the Nile has nome. The Nile rolls its way
from the Mountansof the Moon to the Mediterranean
Sea, 1890 miles without This is very sngu
lar bat is accounted for by being bound in with i'm
passable barrier of hills either side. Ihave travelled
up il for 1900 miles. and never a stream cit her
side running into it."
We shall continue this lecture in next.
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