396 To prevent Smut in Wheat. 



gles and Irby, Signer Belzoni, &c. who were the first who entered 

 it, had beon aheady closed by the accumulation of the sand, 

 which pours down like a ton'ent from the Desert ; and we had 

 forty or fifty men, besides ourselves and servants, occupied for 

 two or three days in re-opening it. The entrance well repaid all 

 or any labours which could be undertaken for the jiurpose. Ima- 

 gine the effect of six colossal figures, of a size bevond any thing 

 to be seen in Europe, attached to six huge pilasters on each side 

 of the first great apartment or portico of the temple. This cham- 

 ber is succeeded by a varety of other smaller ones, connected 

 with or preceding the sanctuary, some supported with pilasters, 

 others without, but richly decorated with mysterious and original 

 sculpture and painting, illustrative of the religion or history of 

 the achiever. The front has no pillars, and hardly any other em- 

 bellishment than four sitting statues reposing against its face, 

 the jjroportions of which may be looselv determined from the 

 measurement across the heart, 28 by 8. These figures are per- 

 fectly well executed; and though the model chosen is certainly 

 not very consistent with our standard of real or ideal beauty, it 

 is very consistent with itself, and the general result productive 

 of a very noble impression. It stands immediately on the Nile, 

 and is to be seen at a great distance. In addition to this, as its 

 final praise, I may say that these are the only colossal statues 

 that do not lose on approach : those of the Memnnnium at 

 Thebes, and particularly the great sitting statues, disappointing 

 Doth the eye and imagination as you advance. We returned to 

 Errouan towards the end of January, and resumed our labour at 

 PhilcB. Denon places it so incorrectly, that you would hardly re- 

 cognise in the outlines or proportions the position or character 

 of these ruins. We spent more than two days in planning the 

 whole island anew; on the accuracy of which you may safely rely, 

 as I imagine the artist who accompanies us, and is very in- 

 telligent, has not omitted the measurement of a single angle or 

 distance in the whole circuit of the place." 



TO PREVENT SMUT IN WHE.\T. 



Liming the seed, bv immersion, is recommended (in the Bi- 

 lliotlieqiie Pliysko-ieconomique) as the only preventive warranted 

 by science and sanctioned bv experience; and the following is 

 given as the method in which the process is best performed: — 

 we em|)loy the English denominations. — To destroy the germ 

 of the bligiit in 4k bushels, or 256 pounds of corn, about six or 

 seven gallons of water must be used, as the grain may be more 

 or less dry, and from 35 to 42 ounces avoirdupoise of quick-lime, 

 according as it maybe more or less caustic, and according as the 

 seed may have more or less of the blight. Make part of the 



water 



