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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
(200 dollars) to Mr. Caviglia: Colonel Campbell paid
the same sum ; and, I conclude, Mr. Sloane did so
likewise.
The following day I left Alexandria for Cairo, Mr.
Caviglia remaining behind to buy various articles, such
as ropes, &c., which could there be best obtained.7
I embarked about three o'clock in the afternoon on
the Mahmoudie, and performed my voyage with great
convenience, as Colonel Campbell was so good as to send
with me his Janisary Selim, whom I found of the greatest
service. The voyage by this canal to Atfee presents no
objects of interest to the eye, except a few villas erected
on its banks, and the sakias, or Persian water-wheels,
the constant motion of which in some degree enlivens the
scene, and, for a few miles, clothes the shores with ver-
dure, soon, however, succeeded by utter sterility, which
7 Excepting the Obelisks, the famous Pillar, the Grecian Catacombs
called Cleopatra's Baths, and, possibly, one or two other foundations,
Alexandria does not at present afford many objects of particular interest;
but by the gradual removal of the vast mounds surrounding the new
town, innumerable fragments of large columns, and other remains of
antient magnificence, are continually brought to light, these mas-
sive foundations form a striking contrast to the slight and imperfect
buildings erected over them. During the time I remained there, a
quantity of marble slabs, broken columns, and several Corinthian
capitals, of bad workmanship, had been dug up in the gardens of
Mahomet El Garbi (the consul for Morocco) ; and soon afterwards a
range of large columns of red granite, with intercolumniations of about
nine feet, and likewise another row, composed of gray granite, at about
seven feet distance, were discovered. Behind these columns were two
parallel walls, at a considerable distance from each other, apparently
Roman, and containing several arches; they had been covered with
a coating of stucco, of which some patches remained, with the traces
of figures coarsely painted. The whole plain beyond the Rosetta
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
(200 dollars) to Mr. Caviglia: Colonel Campbell paid
the same sum ; and, I conclude, Mr. Sloane did so
likewise.
The following day I left Alexandria for Cairo, Mr.
Caviglia remaining behind to buy various articles, such
as ropes, &c., which could there be best obtained.7
I embarked about three o'clock in the afternoon on
the Mahmoudie, and performed my voyage with great
convenience, as Colonel Campbell was so good as to send
with me his Janisary Selim, whom I found of the greatest
service. The voyage by this canal to Atfee presents no
objects of interest to the eye, except a few villas erected
on its banks, and the sakias, or Persian water-wheels,
the constant motion of which in some degree enlivens the
scene, and, for a few miles, clothes the shores with ver-
dure, soon, however, succeeded by utter sterility, which
7 Excepting the Obelisks, the famous Pillar, the Grecian Catacombs
called Cleopatra's Baths, and, possibly, one or two other foundations,
Alexandria does not at present afford many objects of particular interest;
but by the gradual removal of the vast mounds surrounding the new
town, innumerable fragments of large columns, and other remains of
antient magnificence, are continually brought to light, these mas-
sive foundations form a striking contrast to the slight and imperfect
buildings erected over them. During the time I remained there, a
quantity of marble slabs, broken columns, and several Corinthian
capitals, of bad workmanship, had been dug up in the gardens of
Mahomet El Garbi (the consul for Morocco) ; and soon afterwards a
range of large columns of red granite, with intercolumniations of about
nine feet, and likewise another row, composed of gray granite, at about
seven feet distance, were discovered. Behind these columns were two
parallel walls, at a considerable distance from each other, apparently
Roman, and containing several arches; they had been covered with
a coating of stucco, of which some patches remained, with the traces
of figures coarsely painted. The whole plain beyond the Rosetta