Excerpt from Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines The gardens are separated by a primitive kind of wall formed of cakes of mud, sun-dried, about three or four feet square and six inches thick: they are generally topped with dhourra straw or palm branches, and have a most curious appearance. There is something of the same kind used in Greece, but in smaller cakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.