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wheels turned by oxen, and the ploughs, Mrs. L. says, were quite 
Indian. 
Mrs. Lushington having arrived in the valley of the Nile, whose 
stages are about as well known as those from Geneva to Rome, and. 
her descriptions of the vast remnants of former times, which adorn 
in colossal imagery the banks of this proud river, presenting few 
features of novelty, we shall pass with her rapidly as her own 
maash, (which bore no semblance to Cleopatra’s galley,) swept 
down the stream of the Isis, leaving our readers to paint to them- 
selves, or seek, in the perusal of the little volume, the picture of 
her admiration on beholding the profusion of pillars covered with 
sculpture perhaps 3000 years old, standing, prostrated, inclining 
against each other, broken or whole on the fields of Carnac, the 
astonishment of the Turks on seeing a lady write,—her fear and 
disgust at first seeing a mummy opened,—her sudden descent from 
the back of a donkey to that of an Arab,—the disputes and discus- 
sions about boat fees,—and her first sight of the Pyramids, which, 
to her imaginative eyes, were no more than the pigmy efforts of 
human imperfection to rival the surrounding mountains. 
With much trouble she succeeded in ascending to the top of the 
great pyramid of Ghizeh, though when there she could not from fear 
enjoy the scenery, of which we, “however, obtain a good notion, in the 
statement that it consisted of an immense extent of cultivated coun- 
try, divided into fields of yellow flax and green wheat, with the Nile 
and its various canals, and a vast tract of desert on the other side. 
There is much encomium on the pasha’s conduct with respect toe 
strangers, and some account of the military college at Cairo ; but 
the introduction of European arts and sciences, appears to be yet 
quite in its infancy. 
After descending the Nile to Fouah, and meeting with some ob- 
stacle in a mound of earth, they entered the canal, and finally 
reached Alexandria, which they found full of Franks. We have 
here some account of the estimation in which the pasha is held at 
Alexandria ; and we shall quote our author’s words. 
*¢ But notwithstanding the kindness which the Pasha manifests towards the - 
Franks, (says Mrs. L.) he is not popular with those at Alexandria, in conse- 
quence of the dulness of trade, resulting from his monopolies. Neither has he 
friends among the Turks or Arabs ; the former complaining that the new sys- 
tem of tactics has thrown them out of employment, while the latter hate him 
for forcing them into the military service. On the whole, the best informed 
persons said that the state of his government rendered him very anxious ; es- 
pecially as he had already incurred the displeasure of the porte, by repeatedly 
urging the sultan to acquiesce in the demands of the allies. 
“¢ His country, too, was nearly ruined by the Greek war ; not only from the 
vast sums he had expended in his co-operation with the porte; but also from 
the depopulation occasioned by the hosts of troops whom he had been compelled 
to send into the Morea,—thereby draining his provinces of their cultivators.” 
Continuing her recital, she observes, 
