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the most part always both picturesque and striking 

 to a high degree. 



There can be no doubt that the gracefully flowing 

 robes of their Eastern costume contribute not a little 

 to heighten these impressions ; nevertheless it is by no 

 means uncommon to see faces with bronzed and 

 weather-beaten lineaments exhibiting some of the finest 

 examples of manly beauty which can be seen in any 

 part of the world: and so far as our experience goes, 

 these grand types of aristocratic countenances (presenting 

 the appearance of beautifully chiselled statues, cast in 

 bronze, from Nature's finest mould) are much more 

 often to be seen among the desert nomads than amongst 

 the inhabitants of the towns. 



We have, in common with almost all travellers in 

 the East been frequently struck by the dignified and 

 patriarchal appearance of some of these men, whose 

 whole worldly possessions very likely consisted of the 

 tattered garments upon their backs, and perhaps the 

 horse, or camel they bestrode. Such examples must 

 be numerous in the recollections of all tourists who 

 now annually visit the Nile regions in such astonishing 

 numbers; and the European visiting Egypt, while 

 viewing the innumerable monuments of an immense 

 antiquity with which he is surrounded, will doubtless 

 call to mind many scenes which he has witnessed, 

 exactly similar to that so graphically described by 

 Byron in the following lines: 



"There was a mass of many images 

 Crowded like waves upon me, but he was 

 A part of all; and in the last he lay 

 Reposing from the noontide sultriness 

 Crouch'd among fallen columns, in the shade 



