PYRAMIDS OF GEEZEH, FROM THE NILE. 
When the river is low and the intersecting canals dry and practicable, the journey 
from Grand Cairo to the Pyramids of Geezeh is a ride of little more than an hour. 
The traveller mounts in the streets of New Cairo and rides to Old Cairo, where 
he crosses the Nile at the Madiah, or ferry, to a village the nearest to the Pyramids, 
though five miles distant from them, called Geezeh, whence the association of its name 
with these wonders of Egypt and the world. 
From across the Nile the appearance of these stupendous constructions is that which 
is here represented. Every traveller has read of them, and all are acquainted with 
their measured magnitudes; yet, thus seen across the river from Old Cairo, few have 
looked upon them without a feeling of disappointment; they appear to be unimportant 
specks in the desert. When the approach can be made to them in an hour, and 
directly through a beaten track in the fields, they enlarge more rapidly upon the 
vision of the observer; but, if the inundation of the Nile be high, a very circuitous 
route of nearly twenty miles by the canals must be taken; then they dwell upon the 
eye; which, kept constantly upon them, receives so much less of immediate effect 
than the imagination had promised to the traveller, that his disappointment is scarcely 
overcome even when he arrives near to the bases of the Pyramids. At length, however, 
they fail not to fill his mind with an idea of their vastness, winch he could never 
have preconceived. 
Dr. Richardson’s Travels. Roberts’s Journal. 
