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of situation. There have been persons, in chap. 
almost all the ages which have elapsed since • 
the PYRAMIDS were erected, who have retired 
from a view of them under very opposite sensa- 
tions : the ideas excited in their minds, have 
been those of the most dignified simplicity ; of 
miraculous power ; and of duration, so perpe- 
tual, that, if it were permitted to compare a 
result of human labour with the immortality 
which is of Almighty origin, we should say of 
them, that they belong to an Eternity, "which 
WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME." 
As soon as we landed, we met several officers 
from India, belonging to the sixty-first regiment, 
then stationed in the Isle of Rhouda, in the A^zVe; 
where the Indian army was encamped. They 
had been riding upon asses, to Cairo. We 
profited by their return, to hire the same ani- 
mals, with their drivers, in order to be con- 
ducted to the house of the Reis Effendi. The Visit to the 
Reis understood something of the English Ian- jendi. 
guage, and spoke French remarkably well. He 
had been in England; and had written a work 
upon the manufactures, manners, customs, and 
laws of Great Britain. Of this curious manu- 
script we could never obtain a sight; although 
it had been often sold, among the other manu- 
