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an opportunity might offer. Near to these was chap. 
also placed a granite fragment, being the hand y »> 
of a colossal statue discovered by the French 
engineers upon the site of antient Memphis'^, and 
supposed to have belonged to the Temple of 
Vulcan^. Another fragment, exactly similar to 
this, is yet lying among some Ruins upon the 
shore to the east of Alexandria, believed by the 
French to denote the site of Canopus'^. An 
intentional reserve has been carefully main- 
tained by their writers, upon the subject of 
all the antiquities that came in our possession : 
on this account, the places where some of them 
were discovered are still unknown in this coun- 
try. We saw, also, three large Syenite statues, 
each in a sitting attitude, holding the CruxAnsata 
in the left hand : these were representations of 
the twofold symbol worshipped by the Egyptians 
(2) Where the villages of Metrdhenny and Moliannan are now 
situate. 
(3) The reader will find this Colossus mentioned in the " Rapport 
fait au Premier Consul Bonaparte, par le Citoyen Ripaud" in the 
Appendix to Peltier'' s edit, oi Denon's Travels in Egypt, tbm. U. p. 38. 
Lotid. 1802. but without any specific description. Its dimensions 
alone are stated — " Un Colosse (Tenviron trente-cinq pieds de propor- 
tion." 
(4) It is represented, with part of a Sphinx, and other broken pieces 
of sculpture, in one of the plates belonging to the large Paris edition 
of Denon's Travels. See torn, II. Plate 3. " Ruines de Citni>pe." 
