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Title: Photographic views of Egypt, past and present
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Thompson, Joseph Parrish, 1819-1879. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, J. P. Jewett and company Cleveland, Ohio, Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington
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mestic slave-trade for the sake of therevenue, and hundreds of slaves are brought from Nubiadown the Nile. In this respect the Egypt of to-day is theEgypt of three thousand years ago. A wonderful fulfil-ment of prophecy! exclaims some lower-law divine; itwas predicted that the children of Ham should be servantsto their brethren. How wonderful are the ways of Provi-dence ! Yes, but there is no such prediction in the Bible.The curse was invoked upon one only of the sons of Ham— Canaan by name — and it was fulfilled ages ago, in thesubjection of Canaan by the Israelites. The sons of Cush,that founded the great Assyrian Empire, have never servedtheir brethren; and some of the descendants of Ham, whofounded Egypt, do not fulfil that curse, by enslaving otherdescendants of Ham, who wandered a few degrees furthersouth. But what has slavery to do with Cairo ? Nothing,of course, except sentimentally. So jog along, donkey, upto the citadel. Here is the old palace of Mohammed Ali. This is an
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A STREET IN CAIRO. CAIRO THE MAGNIFICENT. 79 indifferent building, with but one handsome room, — thatused as an audience chamber, — but interesting from itsassociation with the modern Reformer of Egypt, the tyrantof her people, and the wholesale butcher of her Mamelukeprinces. Mohammed Ali lavished his adornments upon thepalace at Alexandria — the city which he made his realcapital; — yet not wholly there, for this unfinished mosquethat crowns the eminence with its tasteful minarets, itsquadrangular corridor of forty-three alabaster columns,with richly ornamented capitals, and the sheen of alabasterwalls around the whole interior court of prayer, — shows ataste in the Mussulman Viceroy that would not discreditSt. Peters -and the Vatican. Indeed, the dome of themosque, though less grand than St. Peters, is more aerial,and, at first view, more effective, because the eye embracesit on the moment of entering the building, and never losesit. Here, too, within the mosque, is the t

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