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chiefly at the top, but on the sides more scantily. The smooth sur- 
face reflected so strongly the rays of the sun, and the heat was so 
great from the surrounding banks keeping off the air, that it was 
impossible to draw the ornaments with accuracy. The top is not 
flat, but elevated to a point in the centre, as we found when we 
viewed it from a distance. It is hardly to be doubted, that a statue 
of a deity was originally placed in the cavity; I should suppose 
of Pan, for the height seems too great for the ram only. The shrine 
was placed facing the N. E. in the centre of one side of an irregular 
square, forty- three paces wide by thirty-six ; at present marked only 
by very high mounds of earth, and some remains of a wall ; it had 
apparently a shrine of a similar construction on each side of it. On 
a block of Thebaic granite, which had formed a part of one of these, 
was a figure of a ram with four horns ; two which were visible were 
long and twisted, diverging horizontally from the top of the fore- 
head : a third was shorter, a little curved, perfectly smooth, and 
lying close to the face ; the fourth was concealed. 
There were no other ruins within this square ; but in a second, 
at the northern corner, were several very large blocks of granite, and 
the same in a third. The second and third square were both forty- 
three feet wide ; but the former was seventy eight, and the latter 
forty paces long. At a small distance in front of these, and near to 
the canal, were three hillocks in a line, on which were probably 
some buildings, but at present not a vestige of them remains. 
In walking without the squares, we discovered at least twenty 
troughs of granite, roughly excavated, chiefly of an oval form, and 
which, from their being under five feet long, could not be intended 
for sarcophagi. Not a fragment of a column could be fouijd about 
