width, and running straight as a railway or voman It was a striking sight in itself, to see the great I.-DEPARTURE FROM EGYPT-OVERLAND ROUTEFIRST ENCAMPMENT. It was too hazy to see anything in the distance,even the Pyramids were but shadows. Soon the green circle of cultivated land receded from view, like the shores as you sail out to sea, and in an hour we were in the Desert ocean. Not, however, a wide circle of sand, but a wild waste of pebbly soil, broken into low hills, and presenting nowhere an even horizon. But the remarkable feature was a broad beaten track, smooth and even, and distinctly marked as any turnpike-road in England, only twice the width, and running straight as a railway or Roman road through these desert hills. It was a striking sight in itself, to see the great rack of civilised man in such a region. It was still nore striking when you knew what it was, the great horoughfare of the British empire, becoming yearly ore important and interesting, as the course which o many friends have travelled and will travel. Even he Exodus for that day waxed faint before it. And stly, it was most instructive, as the only likeness |