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Title: Egypt painted and described
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kelly, Robert Talbot, 1861-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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-landswell wooded with palms, acacia, sycamore, and cypresstrees, through which in the distance may be seen thewhite houses of Demerdache relieved against the GibelAchmar beyond. Here are plenty of subjects of apastoral nature which lend themselves to poetic treat-ment. Down by the river-side at Rhoda are subjects ofanother kind. Here the old palaces of the island andthe houses of Masr-el-Atika rise from the narrow back-water, and lead the eye delightfully to the vista beyond. Nuggars ^ innumerable enter from the larger river,and birdlike gliding over its smooth surface, deposittheir cargoes of * tibbin * or corn upon the banks. It is an animated scene as the work of unloadingproceeds amidst the babel of noise inseparable from anycongregation of natives. Women and children are therewashing their clothing and utensils, or drawing theirdomestic water-supply. Over all is a sun-bathed atmo- ^ Running camel or dromedary. ^ Watchman. * Cargo boats. * Chopped straw. 62 ON THE ISLAND OF RHODA
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The Environments of Cairo sphere, which softens all tints and brings them intoharmony with the eternal blue of the sky. Across the bridge at Ghezireh the high mud-banks arecrowned by a grove of date-palms, below which a fleetof boats lie in readiness for the opening of the bridge ;beyond rise the picturesque old houses of Bulak, againstwhich the floating river-life stands out in bold rehef. In the early morning before the sun has dissipatedthe mists, how silvery it all is ! and again at sunset lookback at Cairo and see how the last of the sunlight gildsthe Mokattam Hills, behind which the full moon rises,pale in the warm sky. The city, half hidden by thegardens of Rhoda, is but a suggestion in blue haze,above which the Citadel and Mosque of Mohammed Alirise to catch a glint of the fading light. Below, theriver with its long-drawn reflections is already drowsilvasleep. Such are some of the pictures to be foundeverywhere, whose interesting details are beautified bythe glory of some atmo

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