AND LOWER EGYPT. l8j 



transported to his own country. But he died be- 

 fore he had an opportunity of executing his design ; 

 and from that time to the present, the statue has 

 remained in a state of exposure to the shocks of 

 bales of merchandise, which are incessantly moved 

 about in the court, and which bad even mutilated 

 it, without exciting any concern either to preserve 

 it, or to convey it to its place of destination, where 

 assuredly it would have met with a cordial recep- 

 tion. The genius of destruction must have domi- 

 neered with unbounded sway over regions bestrewed 

 with the dismal effects of her power, seeing it had 

 forced a passage into the enclosure dedicated to the 

 use of a civilized nation. 



Thelodging apartments are over the warehouses; 

 the casements are of consequence very lofty, and a 

 single gate, of great solidity, shuts in this vast range 

 of building. They farther strengthen it, on tumul- 

 tuous emergencies, by bales piled a-top of each 

 other. If the commotion did not subside, and there 

 was ground of apprehension that the populace would 

 break, in, all the inhabitants of the factory slid down 

 from the windows in the night-time, and fled for 

 refuge on board of some vessel. 



In former times there was only a vice consul at 

 the head of this establishment ; but M. Tott, in 

 the course of his inspection, had recalled the consul 



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