Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia: And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea in Search of the Ancient Berenice, and of Another to the Oasis of Jupiter AmmonJohn Murray, 1820 - 483 pages |
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... hope that a little indulgence may be allowed to my mortified feel- ings , particularly when I reflect that it was through them that I was compelled to leave Egypt before I had completed my plans . I must apologise also for the few ...
... hope that a little indulgence may be allowed to my mortified feel- ings , particularly when I reflect that it was through them that I was compelled to leave Egypt before I had completed my plans . I must apologise also for the few ...
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... facts ; and should any one call its cor- rectness in question , I hope they will do it openly , that I may be able to prove the truth of my assertions . b CONTENTS . FIRST JOURNEY . • Insolence and duplicity of PREFACE . ix.
... facts ; and should any one call its cor- rectness in question , I hope they will do it openly , that I may be able to prove the truth of my assertions . b CONTENTS . FIRST JOURNEY . • Insolence and duplicity of PREFACE . ix.
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... hopes that the air might be cool at night ; but I remained very ill the whole day , my stomach refusing to take almost any thing . On the 30th we continued the work , and the colossus advanced a hundred and fifty yards towards the Nile ...
... hopes that the air might be cool at night ; but I remained very ill the whole day , my stomach refusing to take almost any thing . On the 30th we continued the work , and the colossus advanced a hundred and fifty yards towards the Nile ...
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... hopes of passing a part of the land , to which the inundation would extend , previous to the water reaching that spot . On the 3d we went on extremely well , and advanced nearly four hundred yards . We had a bad road on the 4th , but ...
... hopes of passing a part of the land , to which the inundation would extend , previous to the water reaching that spot . On the 3d we went on extremely well , and advanced nearly four hundred yards . We had a bad road on the 4th , but ...
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... hope no one will suppose , that I mean to suggest a comparison between the two nations . The place is blackened with smoke , I presume from the fires made by the natives . Behind the pillars are several niches cut in the rock , but all ...
... hope no one will suppose , that I mean to suggest a comparison between the two nations . The place is blackened with smoke , I presume from the fires made by the natives . Behind the pillars are several niches cut in the rock , but all ...
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Page 529 - Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2. Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3. And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Page 156 - ... long, you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps high enough to sit. But what a place of rest! surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions; which, previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust,...
Page 529 - And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, "Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
Page 529 - But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah ? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war; for God commanded me to make haste : forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
Page 157 - I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and every step I took I crushed a mummy in some part or other.
Page 213 - The outside of this temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the height from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixty-six feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting colossi, the largest in Egypt or Nubia, except the great Sphinx at the pyramids, to which they approach in the proportion of near two-thirds.
Page 299 - It so happened that we were to witness one of the greatest calamities that have occurred in Egypt in the recollection of any one living. The Nile rose this season three feet and a half above the highest mark left by the former inundation , with uncommon rapidity, and carried off several villages and some hundreds of their inhabitants.
Page 37 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Page 235 - The pillars are three feet four inches square, and the whole beautifully painted as the rest. At the same end of the room, and facing the ' Hall of Pillars ' we entered by a large door into another chamber with four pillars, one of which is fallen down. This chamber is fortythree feet four inches by seventeen feet six inches; the pillars three feet seven inches square.
Page 529 - And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.