130 GRAND CAIRO. 
CHAP. Amongst all the sights which this extraordi- 
m. 
nary country presents to the eyes of an 
the^Ram-"' Europecin traveller, there is nothing more novel 
parts. x\\^Yi the viev/ of objects beheld from the CitadeV, 
A very considerable district, whether the 
spectator regard the Emt or the South, is dis- 
tinguished by one uniform buff colour. Tov»'ards 
the North, this colour is opposed by the most 
vived green that imagination can conceive; 
covering all the Delia. Upon the JVest are 
seen the Pyramids, reflecting the sun's beams, 
and as white as snow. In order that the reader 
may comprehend the exact situation of all that 
is seen from hence, this Chapter may conclude 
by a detail of the relative position of the different 
objects, as they were observed by a mariner's 
(1) After the author's return to England, he often endeavoured to 
direct the attention of some Panorama painter of London to this curi- 
ous spot; being convinced that a more surprising- subject for that kind 
of painting could not be found in any other part of the world. Some 
years afterwards, a View of Cairo, painted by Mr. Barher, after de- 
si;i;ns by Mr. Salt, was exhibited in Leicester Fields. The effect/how- 
ever, was deficient. The objects represented, and especially the 
Pyramids, were too diminutive ; the remarkable contrast of colour, 
and the peculiar hues displayed by the original scene, were not pre- 
served ; and the general cast of the scenery had too much the air of an 
European landscape. As a picture, considering the difficulty en- 
countered by an artist in the representation of a scene he had never 
beheld, it was a work of great merit; but to delineate with fidelity 
that which is like nothing else, the artist must himself visit Egypt. 
