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Alexandria. They came to terms; and how well he succeeded in: 
this first work has been proved by the head being now in the 
Museum. 
As an instance of the confidence which his determined perse- 
verance inspires in others, we need only mention, that in his se- 
cond journey to Nubia Mr. Beechey accompanied him. Having 
engaged a party of natives, he set about uncovering the temple 
where its colossal statues showed their heads above the sand, 
They worked tardily for a few days and then ceased, alleging that 
the feast of Rhamadan had commenced; nor could any argu- 
ment persuade them to resume their labour. .[n this emergency 
Belzoni, Beechey and the Irishman set to work themselves ; but 
they soon found that by order of the Aga they could not, for 
money or by entreaties, procure a supply of provisions. The ob- 
ject was to compel them to return the following season to spend 
more money. Having, however, in their boat a bag of millet, 
the party pursued their labour, living on this fare and the Nile 
water; and after twenty-one days severe labour, effected their 
object, in uncovering and gaining access to the interior of the 
temple. 
We consider Mr. Salt, who has been indefatigable in his own 
researches, and unsparing in encouraging those of others,.as 
most fortunate in having secured the assistance of so able an ex- 
plorer as M. Belzoni. By their exertions and those of M. Ca- 
viglia, the British Museum is likely soon to become the richest de- 
pository in the world, of Egyptian antiquities. Mr. Salt has pos- 
sessed himself of many gems in this line. Among others he has 
got down to Cairo the famous stone discovered by the French, 
with eight sculptured figures; another beautiful head of granite, 
as perfect and with a finer polish than that named the young 
Memnon, not quite so large, but perfect; a sitting figure, ex- 
quisitely wrought and as large as life; several statues of basalt ; 
thirty rolls of papyrus, and an immense number of smaller ar- 
ticles. 
Some time ago, to the great grief of every lover of antiquities 
or of enterprise, it was reported that M. Belzoni was dead ; but 
we are happy to say that a letter from Naples falsifies this state- 
ment. Lord Belmore, who has resided for some time at Naples, 
where he arrived after a long and interesting tour through Egypt, 
Palestine, Syria, and to Troy, has received letters from M. Bel- 
zoni, dated from Thebes in Upper Egypt, of the 27th of October. , 
- He continues his researches in Egypt with the greatest activity, 
and has lately made many important discoveries. Lord Belmore 
himself had advanced to 150 leagues beyond the Cataracts into 
Nubia; he passed six*weeks at Thebes, where he every day made 
some researches with the assistance of a hundred Arabs. His 
discoveries 
