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Identifier: upnilehomeagainh00fair (find matches)
Title: Up the Nile, and home again. A handbook for travellers and a travel-book for the library.
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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EDFOU TO ASSOUAN. 367 executed, with all that abundance of detail, andscrupulosity of manipulation, which gives them, aspictures of ancient times, a value equal to photo-graphs. The rock is deeply excavated between this and theother temples, and walls of sandstone hem in thevisitor. The loneliness is perfect. Eagles make thecrannies their home, and sweep across the river asthe footfalls of a stranger approach; the ground isrugged, and tangled vrith wild plants,—the mostformidable being a species of thorn, whose spinesare so large and strong, that they pierced the upperleather of my shoe, and penetrated the foot. Thisrugged road descends from the quarry to the river,close beside the isolated mass to which the oldlegend has affixed the guardian-chain of the stream.Plate XVIII. is a sketch of this rock, and the smallertemples beyond; which are more beautiful in design,and of more striking aspect when seen from theriver, than that already described. They are deco-rated with columns rese

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