[A Visit to the Holy Land by Ida Pfeiffer]@TWC D-Link bookA Visit to the Holy Land CHAPTER XVII 20/23
Every street and church was thronged with people, all of whom were neatly and decently dressed.
I saw but few beggars, and those whom I met were less ragged than the generality of their class. The military, the finest I had ever seen, consisted entirely of tall handsome men, mostly Scotchmen.
Their uniforms were very tasteful. One regiment wore scarlet jackets and white linen trousers; another, black jackets and shoulder-knots,--in fact, the whole uniform is black, with the exception of the trousers, which are of white linen. It seemed much more the fashion to drive than to ride here.
The coaches are of a very peculiar kind, which I hardly think can be found elsewhere.
They consist of a venerable old rattling double- seated box, swinging upon two immense wheels, and drawn by a single horse in shafts.
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