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Extract from a Journal, during the late Cam-- 

 paign hi Egypt. 



BY CAPTAIN C. B. BURR. 



ABOUT three miles to the westward of Ginnie, 

 on the opposite side of the Nik, are situated 

 the ruins of the ancient temple of Isis, now better 

 known to the AiYibs by the name of Dendera; be- 

 ing a corruption of Tcutijris, which name was 

 once borne by a city, of which the puesent temple 

 is all that remains to denote its former splendour. 

 That part which still exists, is surrounded by such 

 heaps of rubbish, broken walls, and fragments of 

 an Arab village, long since mouldered on its parent 

 ruins, that little is perceptible in approaching, ex- 

 cept five clumsy pillars forming'part of a detached 

 temple at some distance from the gate, with whicli 

 it is in a right line, though now separated by a 

 tank, filled by the inundation of the Nile. These 

 columns are connected at their base by a stone 

 wall in which tliere appear to have been eight, one 

 at each corner, and one on either side of an en- 

 trance in front and rear of the building; which is 

 about forty feet long, and possessing nothing 

 worthy attention. 



Beyond this, on the summit, and partly buried 

 in the mound of rubbish, is a gateway much ruined 

 on the side we approached from, but whose inter- 

 nal face is an object of peculiar admiration : its 

 high state of preservation, the excellence of its 

 sculpture, the simplicity of the style, the excellent 

 execution of the figures, chiefly female, the hiero- 

 glyphics, and other ornamental parts, excited my 

 surprise beyond what I had expected or thouglijt 



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