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sprouts unchanged from the soil, should be the only local 

 relic of the great name of the " land of Canaan/^ yet itself (as 

 it seems) not mentioned in the Bible. It is in the triumphal 

 return of Seti that we see the fortress of Zar and the outlying 

 fortified wells of the desert. 



I must deny myself the pleasure of entering on the war 

 against the Kheta (Hittites) at Kadesh of the land of Amar 



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r\.^N^ V '/.c, of the Amorites. Here we have such 



cities " walled up to heaven/' and tall warriors, as those 

 whose sight melted the waxen hearts of the Hebrew spies. 

 But this is an old story, and I seek for newer tidings. We . 

 will pass on. 



Rameses, the son of Seti, was brought up in court and 

 camp, a Pharaoh and a soldier in earnest ; and Moses was 

 trained "in all the wisdom of the Egyptians,'' '^mighty 

 in word and deed," although he refused the proud title 

 of " Son of Pharaoh's daughter," and clave to his own 

 people. 



The fine face and tall six-feet stature of Rameses, so well 

 known to Moses, are almost as familiar to us. Of all his like- 

 nesses surely none can be more beautiful than the exquisite 

 statue in the Museum of Turin, where you see him enthroned 

 in all the springing vigour of his youth. More than sixty 

 years later the aged frame was embalmed and entombed, to 

 come forth more than three thousand years later still to the 

 light of day. Three times had he been translated for greater 

 safety, and at last laid with his father and grandfather in the 

 narrow gallery of the priest-kings of Thebes. I have brought 

 hither some likenesses of thegreat Rameses ; for, well known 

 as he is, many of us may not be familiar with the beautiful 

 statue of him at Turin, which ranks as the first Egyptian 

 statue in Europe. This [showing it] is a photograph of the 

 statue. It is carved in a material harder than marble, but not 

 a limestone. I should also say that I have the profile from 

 Rosellini — a very good profile of Rameses in his younger days. 

 Here also is a photograph of the mummy, and here is a copy 

 of the portrait which is beautifully carved in wood on the 

 mummy case. I must halt here to say that this was said not 

 to be the mummy of Rameses II., and there was a controversy 

 in the Times as to whether it was really Rameses the Second 

 or the Twelfth, a later Pharaoh. The doubt arose from the 

 cofl5n in which the mummy was found. But there were dis- 

 covered on the wrappings of the mummy hieroglyphic inscrip- 

 tions in marking-ink which made it perfectly plain that it was 



