Of this striking scene, so highly characteristic of the City of the Caliphs, it would 
be unjust to Mr. Haghe if so beautiful a work of art as this view is were passed 
without some attempt to do justice to the talent which has been so remarkably developed 
in the progress of this work, from the series of Eastern scenery which began with 
the Holy Land to that which is now so near completion in Modern Egypt. The 
effect of colour now produced from the press is due to his skill and taste; and the 
unrivalled treatment of his chiaro-scnro, and spirit and ability in the characteristic 
grouping of the crowded thoroughfares, appear to leave no room for further improve¬ 
ment in the art of lithography, in which he is so greatly distinguished. 
Roberts’s Journal. Wilkinson’s Egypt. 
PRINCIPAL MOSQUE AT BOULAK. 
Boulak, situated on the right bank of the Nile, and distant about two miles from 
Cairo, of which, in fact, it is a suburb, contains about five thousand inhabitants. 
Formerly, an old canal, used for a nearer approach to the city, existed, and Boulak 
was then on an island, but this canal having been filled up, it became the nearest 
point on the Nile to Cairo, and thence acquired the advantages and rank of a port. 
Here the custom-house is placed, and dues paid on imported and exported merchandise 
which passes by the Nile below Cairo. 
At Boulak travellers usually hire camels, mules, or donkeys, for the short ride 
to the capital, and here the first decided and vivid impressions are received of 
their being in the vicinity of the most Oriental of Cities. It would be difficult 
to imagine a structure more beautiful and striking than the mosque before us. 
Situated in the line of street which leads to Cairo, it is one of the finest in Boulak, 
and scarcely surpassed for elegance by any in the city itself. The minaret is not 
only beautiful in the proportions of its diminished diameter from balcony to balcony, 
but the arabesque enrichments and decorations have left it one of the most beautiful 
of its class of structures. 
Wilkinson’s Egypt. 
