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reported to have been formed by Abd-el-Catchief, who
died of the plague in the year 1836 ; and who is said
to have built a tower not far distant. The road thence
goes through the Turkish burial-ground, which I have
already mentioned, and shortly after enters Es Souan.
The baggage having been replaced in the boat I brought
from Cairo, and the necessary arrangements made, I pro-
ceeded immediately to Koum Ombos, where I remained
for the night, during which some rain fell.
26ih.—Thermometer 7G°.7 The ruins are well situ-
ated on a high bank on the eastern and concave side 01
a bend in the river. The stream has already swept away
great part of these interesting monuments, and will
eventually destroy the remainder; whilst from the land
the sands of the desert have drifted over them in im-
mense quantities. The peribolus was composed of a
very high wall, of unburnt bricks, and on its south-
eastern side a doorway seems to have been originally
intended, but never completed. The cartouche of Thoth-
mes the Third is inscribed upon it, but, from the manner
in which the fastenings for the door have been formed,
it would appear to have been of a later date. The
temples have been covered with hieroglyphics painted
upon stucco. Some of the slabs of which the flat ceil-
ings were composed, are twenty-seven feet long. I
searched without success for the unfinished figures in-
scribed in squares, mentioned by Mr. Wilkinson. The
catacombs appear to have been excavated in a ridge of
hills to the northward.
7 The thernioinetrical observations were always taken in the cabin,
but at different times of the da)'.
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reported to have been formed by Abd-el-Catchief, who
died of the plague in the year 1836 ; and who is said
to have built a tower not far distant. The road thence
goes through the Turkish burial-ground, which I have
already mentioned, and shortly after enters Es Souan.
The baggage having been replaced in the boat I brought
from Cairo, and the necessary arrangements made, I pro-
ceeded immediately to Koum Ombos, where I remained
for the night, during which some rain fell.
26ih.—Thermometer 7G°.7 The ruins are well situ-
ated on a high bank on the eastern and concave side 01
a bend in the river. The stream has already swept away
great part of these interesting monuments, and will
eventually destroy the remainder; whilst from the land
the sands of the desert have drifted over them in im-
mense quantities. The peribolus was composed of a
very high wall, of unburnt bricks, and on its south-
eastern side a doorway seems to have been originally
intended, but never completed. The cartouche of Thoth-
mes the Third is inscribed upon it, but, from the manner
in which the fastenings for the door have been formed,
it would appear to have been of a later date. The
temples have been covered with hieroglyphics painted
upon stucco. Some of the slabs of which the flat ceil-
ings were composed, are twenty-seven feet long. I
searched without success for the unfinished figures in-
scribed in squares, mentioned by Mr. Wilkinson. The
catacombs appear to have been excavated in a ridge of
hills to the northward.
7 The thernioinetrical observations were always taken in the cabin,
but at different times of the da)'.
VOL. I. F