DESCRIPTIONS OF EGYPT. QGo 
thirty-five wide, and twenty-two in height. The 
entrance into the chambers is formed by three im- 
mense columns, to which are attached double the 
number of colossal statues, each eighteen and a 
half feet in height. The whole is cut out of the 
living rock, and forms certainly a work of immense 
labour, though, in comparing it to the general scale 
of Egyptian architecture, the praises of Mr Legh 
may appear somewhat extravagant. These exca- 
vations bear such a resemblance to the Indian 
ones of Elephanta and Ellora, as may indicate an 
early communication between the two nations ; un- 
less we suppose, that the same state of government 
and society might in both cases produce similar ef- 
fects. 
At Dakki, nine miles above Guerfeh Hassan, was 
found a temple, in very fine preservation. The 
height of the propylon is fifty feet ; the front nine- 
ty, and the depth at the base eighteen feet. The 
temple itself, sixty-six feet distant from the propy- 
lon, is eighty-four feet in length, thirty in breadth, 
and twenty-four in height. The hieroglyphics are 
almost quite entire, and many Greek inscriptions 
are cut on the propylon. The next remarkable 
temple is that at Sibhoi, which presented a speci- 
men of pure Egyptian architecture. It appears, 
however, to be of an earlier date, and built in a 
ruder style, than those below the cataracts ; but it 
js much better preserved. This is imputed to the 
