AGES LONG PAST. 



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We saw along the railway scores of water-wheels, 

 turned by cows or oxen, for irrigating purposes, pre- 

 cisely as they are represented to have been in the ages 

 long past; and there, too, are the wooden ploughs 

 with no improvement whatever in 3,000 years. 



THE PYRAMIDS AND RIVER NILE. 



We went, of course, to see the Pyramids and the 

 Sphinx. To me the most remarkable things about 

 those ruins are the immense stones in the temple of 

 the Sphinx. These stones have been quarried out 



