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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



The next engravings exhibit the front,, back, and one 

 of the sides of monument N, distant twenty feet from 

 the last. It is twelve feet high, four feet on one side, 

 three feet four inches on the other, and stands on a ped- 

 estal seven feet square, with its front to the west. 

 There is no altar visible ; probably it is broken and 

 buried. The front view seems a portrait, probably of 

 some deified king or hero. The two ornaments at the 

 top appear like the trunk of an elephant, an animal un- 

 known in that country. The crocodile's head is seven 

 feet from it, but appears to have no connexion with it. 

 This is four feet out of the ground, and is given in the 

 plate as one of the many fragments found among the 

 ruins. 



The back presents an entirely different subject from 

 the front. At the top is a figure sitting cross-legged, 

 almost buried under an enormous headdress, and three 

 of the compartments contain tablets of hieroglyphics. 



Not to multiply engravings, I have omitted side 

 views, as they are, in general, less interesting. This is 

 particularly beautiful. The tablets of hieroglyphics are 

 very distinct. 



