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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. 



CHAP. XV. 



cover, in the marks of favour bestowed by the 

 Ptolemies on the religion of Egypt, a strained and 

 unnatural display of devotion : the contrast of 

 which with tlie simplicity and real feeling of an- 

 cient times cannot fail to strike those who compare 

 the monuments of the two eras. 



Exterior of a tomb cut in the roclc at Beni Hassan. 



