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DESCRIPTIONS OF EGYPT. 
which, on Atlas, are called Brebers or Berebbers ; 
for the tribe of Nuba, who have given name to 
this portion of Africa, are situated much farther 
up, and to the west of Abyssinia. The Barabras 
are described as rigid Mahometans, yet a harm- 
less, frank, and honest people. At Siala, Mr 
Legh met a chief, called the Douab CachefF, from 
whom he met a hospitable reception, and ready 
permission to proceed up the river. Passing Deg- 
himeer and El Umbarakat, at which last place 
there are considerable ruins, the travellers arrived 
at Kalaptsh, situated three miles above an island 
of the same name, and which presented a magni- 
ficent temple, though in a state of great dilapida- 
tion. Soon after, they came to a still more re- 
markable object, the excavated temple at Guerfeh 
Hassan, which appeared to Mr Legh superior to 
every thing else he had seen both above and be- 
low Syene. The outer court is sixty-four feet in 
length, and thirty-six in breadth. The interior 
consists of three chambers, the largest of which is 
forty-six and a half feet in length, thirty-five wide, 
and twenty-two in height. The entrance into the 
chambers is formed by three immense columns, 
to which are attached double the number of co- 
lossal 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 
