As connected with the event of the destruction of the Memlooks, there is a spot 
still marked below the high walls of the citadel, on the side of the tower, where 
Amyn Bey forced his horse over a place at that time dilapidated in the wall, forty 
feet above the ground on the outside. Fortunately the debris of the wall had formed 
a talus on the outside, which broke his fall. The noble animal was killed, but the 
Bey escaped; the only one of four hundred and seventy, who had been decoyed 
to their destruction by the Pasha. Every author on Egypt has written their tale, 
and the memorable spot is still pointed out to every traveller. 
This view is one of the most striking spots in Cairo, whether as connected with 
its history, the public manners and habits of the people, or the picturesque beauty 
of the objects it contains in the noblest of its religious structures and the architectural 
character of the Bab-el-Azab. 
MOSQUE OF AYED BEY, IN THE DESERT OF SUEZ. 
These fine objects, so strikingly characteristic of the East, are so highly picturesque 
that the artist can scarcely help adding to his collection of drawings every fresh 
mosque that he visits, or selecting new points of view of these beautiful structures. 
This, which is one of those commonly called the Tombs of the Caliphs, is known 
to be the mosque-tomb of Ayed Bey, and is one of the numerous buildings of this 
class raised by the Memlooks, that are situated without the Bab en Nasr in the 
Desert, across which lies the road to Suez. 
The courts, domes, and minarets of these mosques, offer in their elegant forms, 
which cut vividly against the clear atmosphere of Egypt, an endless impression of 
beauty; but so rapidly are they now decaying, that the chief record of their having 
ever existed may, in another age, be found only in such a work as these illustrations. 
