Account of an Excursion to Thehes. $B 
their end, where three statues had formerly stood. It is sup- 
ported by four large fluted columns, without either base or capi- 
tal. One of these is broken, leaving about eight feet of the shaft 
hanging from the roof. The roof and walls are covered with 
hieroglyphics and painted sculptures, the colours still remaining. 
Three hours after leaving Benihassan, we reached the village of 
Sheik Abadi, where we landed to see the remains of the ancient 
Antinoe. We were gratified with the sight of some fine Corin- 
thian columns of granite : The other ruins are large mounds of 
broken bricks and pottery ; and this is ail that remains of a 
famous Roman city, upon which, if we judge from the quantity 
of granite that has been used, the greatest labour and expence 
have been bestowed : and the temple of Dendera, built proba- 
bly more than a thousand years before, is still perfect. About 
eight in the same evening we arrived at the village of Radam, 
and went to the house of Mr B. an Englishman, v/ho has en- 
gaged in a concern with the Pacha, and had undertaken to. refine 
Egyptian sugar, and to distil rum from the molasses obtained 
in the process. He has completely succeeded. The sugar is 
equal to any loaf-sugar we see in Europe ; and the rum is so 
excellent, that all the great Turks are forgetting the sober and 
salutary precepts of the Koran. 
We had here a most agreeable surprise in meeting with Mr B. 
who went to India with me last year. Pie left the ship by 
' which he had returned from India at Koseir, crossed the desert 
to Kene, and, after visiting the wonders about Thebes, was now 
on his way to Cairo. 
On the morning of the 1st of July, we passed Monfaloot, a pret- 
ty town, containing a number of wEite-washed mosques and mi- 
narets. In the afternoon we stopped at Siout, where vre re- 
ceived a visit from Dr M. to whom we had an introduction. He 
invited us most pressingly to pass a day wdth him, which, in our 
anxiety to get to Thebes, we were obliged to decline. On the 
2d, we stopped at the village of Gaive, wdiere there was former- 
ly a temple, but now only one column remains erect ; others ap- 
pear to have been lately taken down by the Arabs, for the sake 
of the metal clamps with which the stones were joined. Large 
masses of stones lie near the pillars, which probably formed the 
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