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beauty of form, and execute them M r ith such accuracy 

 and spirit, is truly astonishing. 



Passing the Lion carved from red granite, we notice, 

 Nos. 2 and 33. Egyptian Obelisks, brought from 

 Grand Cairo ; where the latter was used as a door- sill 

 of a Mosque in the castle of Cairo, and seen there by 

 Niebuhr in 1762. There is a beautiful simplicity 

 in the Obelisks, undisfigured as they are by any irregu- 

 larity, and ornamented with figures of great accuracy of 

 outline. 



No. 8. Statue of a Priest, of the royal family of 

 Shishak, standing at an altar. 



No. 9. A Colossal Fist : upwards of 10 feet in length. 



No. 12. An Egyptian Monument, found in the pa- 

 lace of Carnak. 



No. 15. A Colossal Head, found by Belzoniin Carnak. 



No. 18, A Colossal Arm, belonging to the same Sta- 

 tue as the Plead No. 15. 



No. 19. Head of Rameses the Great is a fine 

 specimen of Egyptian art, sculptured from fine grained 

 granite : and taken from Thebes, where it originally 

 stood, but then in a lying position, and much mutilated, 

 it was conveyed by the French to the banks of the Nile, 

 under the direction of Belzoni, and by the request of 

 Plenry Salt, Esq. and Louis Burckhardt, who presented 

 it to the Museum. This colossal head which is in 

 height 8 feet 9 inches, was carried down the river Nile 

 to Rosetta and thence to Alexandria, a distance of 800 

 miles ; from which latter place it was embarked for 

 England. It was conveyed one mile and placed in a 

 boat, by means only of fourteen poles, eight of which 

 were used for a car, four ropes of palm leaves and two 

 rollers. The height of the entire figure must have been 

 twenty-four feet. 



Nos. 20 and 22. Part of the Friezes of an Egyp- 

 tian Temple, covered with hieroglyphics. 



No. 21. A Colossal Statue of Amenoph III, found 

 in an excavation in the Temple of Memnon, 



No. 24. The Rosetta Stone, so called from its being 

 found near Rosetta : it contains three inscriptions, re- 



