136 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
and walls are covered with hieroglyphics, a labour truly ftu- 
pendous. i. The Great Temple ftands in the diftrid; called 
Karnac. 
2, Next in importance is the temple at Abu-Hadjadj. 
3. Numerous ruins, avenues marked with remains of Sphinxes, 
&c. On the Weft fide of the Nile appear, 
1. Two colofTal figures, apparently of a man and woman, 
formed of a calcareous ftone like the reft of the ruins. 
2. Remains of a large temple, with caverns excavated in the 
rock. 
3. The magnificent edifice ftyled the palace of Memnon. Some 
of the columns are about forty feet high, and about nine and a 
half in diameter. The columns and walls are covered with 
hieroglyphics. This ftands at Kourna. 
4. Behind the palace is the palTage ftyled Biban-el-MoIuk, 
leading up the mountain. At the extremity of this paffage, in 
the fides of the rock, are the celebrated caverns known as the 
fepulchres of the antient kings. 
Several of thefe fepulchres have been defcribed byPococke with 
fufficient minutenefs ; he has even given plans of them. But 
in converfation with perfons at Affiut and in other parts of 
Egypt, 
