210 Some Particulars of Discoveries in Egypt. 
Under skilful mangement, therefore, the profit would be great; 
Hut the whole depends on the expenditure of a large capital, in 
bringing the land aé once into a state of thorough cultivation, and 
of great fertilily. The latter can easily be effected in the neigh- 
bourhood of London, where an offer has already been made of 
urnishing manure for an extensive tract of country at a very 
moderate expense. — 
If any thing like this plan is practicable, why should there be 
a single acre of waste land in the vicinity of the metropolis, or 
any able-bodied labourer near it unemployed ? 
This year (1819) must be employed in making an application 
to parliament ;—in purchasing land ;—in various necessary pre- 
parations ;—and in trying useful experiments ;—but the next year 
will exhibit a scene of industry which has probably never been 
exceeded in any age or country. J. ie 
*.* It is particularly requested, that any gentleman who approves of the 
preceding Plan, will have the goodness to communicate his sentiments on 
the subject, by a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, bart. 
Orwly-Lodge, Ham Common, Surrey; or to Mr. J. Bailey, 51, Watling- 
strect, London. 
XXXIII. Some Particulars of M. Betzont’s Discoveries in 
Egypt. 
Is our Number for April of last year (p. 241 of vol. li.) we in- 
serted a letter from M. Belzoni to M. Visconti, dated Cairo, 
January 9, 1818, mentioning his return from Upper Egypt, and 
being then engaged in preparing for a third journey to Nubia ; 
and that in his first journey he had succeeded in removing to 
Alexandria the head known by the name of the Memnon’s head, * 
a colossal bust ten feet in height, formed out of a single block of 
granite, and about twelve tons in weight. This head, which the 
French were unable to remove even after bloving off with gun- 
powder a portion of the back part, M. Belzoni, by the assistance 
solely of the native peasantry, without the aid of any machine, 
succeeded in removing from Thebes to Alexandria. The chief 
difficulty lay in transporting it from Thebes to the Nile, to get it 
on board a vessel for Alexandria. This labour required a degree 
of patience and perseverance which few men possess: it took 
him six months, though the distance to the Nile was only about 
two miles. 
This colossal bust, which reached England last summer, has 
been recently placed, most judiciously as to light, on a pedestal 
in the Egyptian room in the British Museum, under the able di- » 
rection of Mr. Combe. 
From Thebes M. Belzoni proceeded to Nubia to examine the 
great 
