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" afterwards to the ruins, that are found on the 

 " north fide. There is no doubt but they arc 

 " the rennains of the palace of Memnon. 



" The reader may there renaark, letter C the 

 *' portico of a temple, capable of giving a great 

 ** idea of the Egyptian architeflure. 



*' The hieroglyphics are agreeable to the 

 " fight, and when you are quite near, their co- 

 ** lours have a charming effeEt. 



** It is fomething furprifing to fee how gold^ 

 ** ultra mariney and divers other colours, have fre- 

 *' Jerved their liijlre to thefrejent age,'* 



*' and hieroglyphics, and all thefe are painted over in a mofi 

 *' curious atid exqni/itc wanner. 



" This grand fumptuous portal, is no other than a paf^ 

 *' fage which leads from the firil court or falon, into a fe- 

 •' cond. This falon, which is equimenfurate with the for-^ 

 •• mer, viz. one hundred paces wide, and fixty deep, is per- 

 *' feftly crowded with pillars, lil^e the former as to Ihapeand 

 *' ornaments, only that thefe are larger, being near twelve 

 " feet in diameter, and feventy-two feet high : nil thefe co». 

 ♦' lumns as well as the ceiling, roof and walls of the apart- 

 *' ment are quite covered or crowded with figures in bafTp 

 •' relievo, and hieroglyphics, till exjuijite/y beautiful, and 

 *' f.ncly painted all ever — and which may feem very extraor- 

 " dinary, all thefe things /oc^ asfrejh, fpUndid and glorious, 

 ♦' after fo many ages, as if tbey luere but juji finijhed.^* 



Diodorus Siculus, in his defcription of 1 hebes, mentions 

 fuch gigantic figures, covered with the molt beautiful co- 

 lours, as well as the other kinds of paintings, which are Hill 

 Cjftant in the remains of that city. 



Such 



