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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
A raised causeway of masonry has formed the approach
from the river; and amongst accumulations of rubbish,
of ruined walls and foundations, upon which the huts of
a few miserable savages are erected, the remains of a
temple supposed to have been built in the time of the
Romans may be traced, as also those of another edifice
in a different direction, with Egyptian columns in the
interior. They had been constructed with stones finished
round the edges, and with the usual stone doors; and
holes apparently for metallic fastenings may still be
seen at the angles of the stones. The courses in some
of the walls are, as Mr. Wilkinson has observed, in curved,
and not in horizontal lines; and a doorway has been con-
structed in one place many feet above the level of the
ground.
Not far from the village of Gertassee is a large
quadrangular enclosure, the walls of which are about
twenty or thirty feet high, and of considerable breadth,
and externally composed of large squared stones, but the
middle is filled up with rubble-work. The masonry is
not of the best workmanship, and it is to be observed
very inferior to that of a similar building, called Ramah,
near Hebron, in Syria ; which appears, like this, to have
been intended for a place of security for cattle, goods,
&c. Several of the courses on the western side from
settling or some other cause are curved like those at
Wady Taffa. I did not observe any hieroglyphics, but
the remains of sculpture are visible over a lofty gateway
in the centre of one of the faces of the building front-
ing north-east half north. The adjoining plain had but
little cultivation. Towards the north were extensive
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
A raised causeway of masonry has formed the approach
from the river; and amongst accumulations of rubbish,
of ruined walls and foundations, upon which the huts of
a few miserable savages are erected, the remains of a
temple supposed to have been built in the time of the
Romans may be traced, as also those of another edifice
in a different direction, with Egyptian columns in the
interior. They had been constructed with stones finished
round the edges, and with the usual stone doors; and
holes apparently for metallic fastenings may still be
seen at the angles of the stones. The courses in some
of the walls are, as Mr. Wilkinson has observed, in curved,
and not in horizontal lines; and a doorway has been con-
structed in one place many feet above the level of the
ground.
Not far from the village of Gertassee is a large
quadrangular enclosure, the walls of which are about
twenty or thirty feet high, and of considerable breadth,
and externally composed of large squared stones, but the
middle is filled up with rubble-work. The masonry is
not of the best workmanship, and it is to be observed
very inferior to that of a similar building, called Ramah,
near Hebron, in Syria ; which appears, like this, to have
been intended for a place of security for cattle, goods,
&c. Several of the courses on the western side from
settling or some other cause are curved like those at
Wady Taffa. I did not observe any hieroglyphics, but
the remains of sculpture are visible over a lofty gateway
in the centre of one of the faces of the building front-
ing north-east half north. The adjoining plain had but
little cultivation. Towards the north were extensive