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watered by wheels, and bearing more marks of civilization than the 

 other villages, and the inhabitants appeared more industrious. Their 

 huts were thickly scattered among numerous palm-trees. Here there 

 is a small Shellaal which leaves only a narrow passage to the west ; 

 on the other part there is a low ridge of rocks. Opposite to Abouhore, 

 placed as if to command this passage, is a ruined Arab castle of 

 unbaked bricks. At Abouhore an assembly of women was collected 

 howling over the dead body of a child. 



May 20. — We arrived by means of towing at Garsery, called by 

 Norden, Garbe Dendour, on the west bank, where I landed to visit 

 the ruins. Nothing can be considered more barren than the rocks 

 and hills on each side, passed in the course of this day. The few 

 huts I saw, were made of loose stones cemented by mud, and covered 

 with a flat roof of straw or branches of palm-trees. The ruins at Gar- 

 sery consist of a front of masonry of three sides, enclosing a portico 

 and gateway. The longest side is about one hundred feet, and faces 

 the river ; the height above the ground is ten feet. In the centre of 

 the enclosure is a gateway ; the side stones are covered with hiero- 

 glyphics ; beyond is the portico of a small temple, which consists of 

 the usual pyramidal front ; the entablature is perfect ; the capitals 

 of the columns are alike, presenting the form of the full-blown lotus ; 

 the symbol among the sacred plants of Egypt, most commonly 

 appropriated to Osiris. A lateral wall separates this portico from two 

 inner chambers. 



May 21. — Having passed the remains of a portico at Garshee, we 

 moored nearly opposite to Dukkey on the east side. 



May 22. — Having crossed from our mooring-place, I landed and 

 skirted the desart for the space of an hour, passing frequently over 

 Roman tiles and brick, and arrived at the temple of Dukkey. The 

 front faces the north close to the river, and consists of two pyramidal 

 moles with a gateway complete; a cornice and torus surround the whole. 

 The dimensions of the front are about seventy-five feet in length, 

 forty in height, and fifteen in depth. The walls are without hieroglyphics. 



