AI-'D LOWER EGYPT. II3 



A wide extent of sand and dust, sn accumula- 

 tion of rubbish, was an abode worthy of the co- 

 lony of Alexandria, and every day they were la- 

 bouring hard to increase the horror of it. Co- 

 lumns subverted and scattered about ; a few others 

 still upright, but isolated ; mutilated statues, ca- 

 pitals, entablatures, fragments of every species 

 overspread the ground with which it is surround- 

 ed. It is impossible to advance a step, without 

 kicking, if I may use the expression, against some 

 of those wrecks. It is the hideous theatre of de- 

 struction the most horrible. The soul is sadden- 

 ed, on contemplating those remains of grandeur 

 and magnificence, and is roused into indignation 

 against the barbarians who dared to apply a sacri- 

 legious hand to monuments which time, the most 

 pitiless of devourers, would have respected, 



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