THE

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

OF THE

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS,

INCLUDING THEIR

PRIVATE LIFE, GOVERNMENT, LAWS, ARTS, MANUFACTURES,
RELIGION, AGRICULTURE, AND EARLY HISTORY;

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Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, New-Street-Square.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER IV.

THE others Members of the Second Caste. The Husband-

men

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Rights of the Farmers. Skill in Agriculture. Gardeners

Mode of irrigating with the Shadóof, or Pole and Bucket 4

No Persian Wheel. Antiquity of the Shadóof. The

Huntsmen, another Subdivision of this Caste

Ostriches prized for their Plumes and Eggs. Boatmen
Sailors of the Fleet, and the Soldiers who served on Board.
The Third Caste. Artificers. Skill in stamping Leather
Each Trade had probably a particular Quarter of an Egyp-
tian City appropriated to it. No Tradesman could
meddle in Politics. Their Reasons for forbidding it

The public Weighers and Notaries. Things sold by Weight 10

Their Money consisted of Rings of Silver and Gold

The Scribes wrote down the Weight of Things sold, as at

the present Day in Cairo. They penned Letters for

those who could not write. The Master Tradesmen

learned to write

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Egyptian Writing of Three distinct Kinds, besides many

Styles of each

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