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fje shaff^® i* richer than the doric order of tlie Greeks, 
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stem of the lotus. tinder the roof 
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le “ middle columns, are winged globes ; and 
foofs are ornamented with a wreath'^of painted ’stars. 
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colour on a blue ground. 
i; ?% OF Apolunopolis Magna is described by 
vf' Pref ®“'?=issmg in extent, majesty, magnificence, and 
“^^Fation, whatever he had seen ■- 
a building is a ion 
in Kgvpt, or else- 
suile of pyramidal gates, of 
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^corated with galleries, of porticoes, and of covered 
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^structed, not with common stones, bfit with entire 
Jdo Q superb edifice is situated on a rising ground, so 
\^le^?‘°ok, not only its immediate vicinity, but the 
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V slley. On the right is the princip.il gate, placed bc- 
1 ,q g huge mounds of buddings, on the walls of 
yitg' ^ three orders of hieroglyphic figures increasing in 
V\i dimensions, insomuch that the last have a pir 
t? 9 w II twenty-five feet. The inner court is decorate 
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^^llery of columns, bearing two terraces, which come 
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Og t" through which is the passage to the -stairs, 
ncg the platform of the mounds. Behind 
the. int. 
3re several apartments, and the sanctuary of the 
id'*in Wall of circuravalation is decorated bolh within 
witli innumerable hieroglyphics, executed in a 
I laborious style, jjfhis magnificent temple 
V^h ° been dedicated to the evil genius, die figure 
Oligyt being represented in relief on the four sides of 
, \which surmounts each of the capitals. The entire 
ii^itipi ^ tbe paintings within, are descriptive of Isis 
5. "^Fself against the attacks of that monster. 
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1 .%,. of Ihe ancient city of Thebes, which Homer 
'.Ht,. '^I'ized by the single expression of the city with 
'vthe immense an extent as to eon- 
|y*'an) spectator that fame has not magnified its size ; for, 
lytiig®^' of Egypt not being sufficient to contain it, its 
VjMtj j ''est on two chains of contiguous mountains, 
(j*^’®bs occupy the vallies towards the west, far on 
L i_ esfrf ^ large temple on the eastern side is more 
^esert. 
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tjj *®3gues and a half distant from JMedinet-Abu, 
®>ost western temple is situated. The modern 
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^arnac is built on s small part of die site of a 
