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the land. I had a drawing of these ruins taken. 

 (See Plate V.) By the side of these vestiges, blocks 

 of granite of different forms are broken down and 

 laid in heaps. In the middle is a colossal statue 

 of a woman, and, what is very singular, fluted all 

 its length. This is also of granite, and it is over- 

 thrown and mutilated in some parts. The sea, 

 though ever so little agitated, covers it with its 

 waves; if you wish to examine it at leisure, you 

 must take the advantage of calm weather. Chance 

 was favourable to me, and I caused a drawing of 

 it to be taken as it then existed. (See Plate VI. 

 in which the statue is represented with the ruins 

 that surround it.) Plate VII. fig. 2. displays it 

 alone and detached. 



The people of the country had been struck with 

 this extraordinary statue, andas the ensemble of the 

 ruins was in their sight the city of Pharaoh, this was 

 also in their opinion the daughter of Pharaoh. The 

 designer of a Frenchman, who was in Egypt at the 

 same time with me, and who visited Aboukir, had 

 represented it as perfect in its execution, and in its 

 preservation; he had drawn it, not as it was/in 

 reality, but as he believed it ought to be, that is to 

 say, upright, and resting on a pedestal of his own 

 imagination. Such drawings as these are rather - 

 calculated to mislead than to give information, and 

 they should never be permitted to enter the port- 

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