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Excerpt from Observations on Divers Passages of the Scripture, Vol. 2 of 2: Relating to Vi; The Eastern Methods of Doing Persons Honour; VII. Their Books; VIII. The Natural, Civil, and Military State of Judæa; IX. Ægypt; X. Miscellaneous Matters
Before I quit this Obfervation, I cannot forbear remarking, that there are other things prefented in the Eaft, befides money, which appear to us extremely low and mean, un worthy the quality of thofe that offer them, or of thofe to Whom they are prefent'ed; and confequently that we mutt be extremely un qualified to judge of thete oriental compli ments. In what light might an European wit place the prefent of a_ Governor of an 'nyptian village, who lent to a britiih'con fill fifty eggs as a mark of refpeét 6, and that in a'country where they are fo cheap as to be fold at the rate of ten for a penny 7?
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