III. 
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compass. This mode of description was fre- chap 
quently used by the celebrated JVheler, in the 
account he published of his Travels in Greece'^-, 
and it will be occasionally adopted in the 
remaining Chapters of this Section. 
YiEwfrom the Citadel of Cairo. 
East. 
A very unusual and striking spectacle; all 
the landscape being of a buff, or bright stone- 
colour ; and the numerous buildings in view 
having the hue of the plains on which they 
stand. In the distance is an arid desert, 
without a single mark of vegetation. Nearer 
to the eye appear immense heaps of sand, the 
Obelisk of HeliopoUs, and the stately mosques, 
minarets, and sepulchres, belonging to a Coemetery 
of the Caliphs in a suburb of Cairo, called 
Beladeensan ; a place crowded with buildings of 
a sino-ular form'. 
South East. 
Hill and broken mounds, disposed, in vast 
masses, with very great grandeur. 
(2) See fVheler's Travels, pp. 410, 442, 449, &c. Land. 1682. 
(3j See Plate 24. m the larje Paris editiou of Denon's Travels. 
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