the Ethiopians, by sculptured designs. Other excavations and tablets, hierogly¬ 
phics and sculptures, illustrate the reigns of others of the early Pharaohs, and of 
Remeses II. and his successors, to the nineteenth dynasty. 
The durability of the sandstone of these quarries is shown, not only in the fine 
and sharp work executed on the columns, walls, and entablatures of the temples, 
and where, when uninjured by man, the forms left by the sculptor are still preserved, 
but in the quarries where the stones were hewn, the splinters lie about as fresh 
in appearance, says Dr. Richardson, “ as if the labourer had left his work only the 
evening before and might be expected to retui’n and resume it, but that evening 
was two thousand years ago.” 
Wilkinson’s Egypt and Thebes. Colonel Howard Yyse. Wathen’s Egypt. 
Dr. Richardson’s Travels. 
PART OF THE HALL OF COLUMNS AT KARNAK, SEEN 
FROM WITHOUT. 
This subject represents in another point of view the appearance of this forest of 
columns as seen from without, and transversely. The vast pillars which form the 
centre avenue are here hidden by the external ranges of columns; the two rows 
next to the centre avenue were surmounted with square frames of stone, that, together 
with the central columns, supported there the loftiest roof of this prodigious structure, 
and admitted light into the hall. Here the confusion in which these vast masses 
have fallen, or been propped by others which are still erect, is extraordinary, and 
is shown with great effect; and, endless as are the points of view presented by the 
ruins of this the most striking Temple in the world, none is more effective or charac¬ 
teristic than this vignette selected by Mr. Roberts. 
