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was probably on its way thither, to be carved and set 

 up as an ornament, when the labours of the workmen 

 were arrested. Like the unfinished blocks in the quar- 

 ries at Assouan and on the Pentelican Mountain, it re- 

 mains as a memorial of baffled human plans. 



"We remained all day on the top of the range. The 

 close forest in which we had been labouring made us 

 feel more sensibly the beauty of the extended view. On 

 the top of the range was a quarried block. With the 

 chay stone found among the ruins, and supposed to be 

 the instrument of sculpture, we wrote our names upon 

 it. They stand alone, and few will ever see them. 

 Late in the afternoon we returned, and struck the river 

 about a mile above the ruins, near a stone wall with a 

 circular building and a pit, apparently for a reservoir. 



As we approached our hut we saw two horses with 

 side-saddles tied outside, and heard the cry of a child 

 within. A party had arrived, consisting of an old 

 woman and her daughter, son, and his wife and child, 

 and their visit was to the medicos. We had had so 

 many applications for remedios, our list of patients had 

 increased so rapidly, and we had been so much annoy- 

 ed every evening with weighing and measuring medi- 

 cines, that, influenced also by the apprehensions before 

 referred to, we had given out our intention to discon- 

 tinue practice ; but our fame had extended so far that 

 these people had actually come from beyond San An- 

 tonio, more than thirty miles distant, to be cured, and 

 it was hard to send them away without doing something 

 for them. As Mr. C. was the medico in whom the 

 public had most confidence, I scarcely paid any atten- 

 tion to them, unless to observe that they were much 

 more respectable in dress and appearance than any pa- 

 tients we had had except the members of Don Grego- 



