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VOYAGE UP THE NILE.
religion is practised in a church of ancient Egyptian style of build-
ing. It. is sometimes called the Dair or temple. This, as well as the
convents of the Natron lakes, and those of Tahta, and Girgeh, and
Thebes, and Negadeh, have been fully described by Curzon, in his
monasteries of the Levant. The monks are willing to receive do-
nations from you, and the manner they have of showing this here, as
well as in all those up the river, makes you feel as if they were hardly
of your religion. =— MttHMHUaM
Beside these convents, there arc :
at old Cairo, one of which has beai:
resides, and a beautiful view. Am
the virgin lived :
" Under a palm-tree by the
Lulled on his mother's br<
With dove-like breathing
Brooding above the sluml
While through the stillne
Lo, the dread work of
Temple and pyramid beyi
Regal and still as everlasi
Vain pomps! from Him v
Soft shadowed by his mot
I would not put aside the tradrti
with his mother and Joseph, had
at the sycamore-tree which grows
that at this fountain they drank,
tainly as good and authentic as 1
Catholic priests get up at Jerusalen
The Church of St. George. T
show you the grotto of St. Sergius
and Joseph lived and slept. Near l]
There is one convent at Alexa:
of St. Mark. The Copts here pretej
body of St. Mark, but Leo Africanu|
it away. It is filled with Daintings!
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VOYAGE UP THE NILE.
religion is practised in a church of ancient Egyptian style of build-
ing. It. is sometimes called the Dair or temple. This, as well as the
convents of the Natron lakes, and those of Tahta, and Girgeh, and
Thebes, and Negadeh, have been fully described by Curzon, in his
monasteries of the Levant. The monks are willing to receive do-
nations from you, and the manner they have of showing this here, as
well as in all those up the river, makes you feel as if they were hardly
of your religion. =— MttHMHUaM
Beside these convents, there arc :
at old Cairo, one of which has beai:
resides, and a beautiful view. Am
the virgin lived :
" Under a palm-tree by the
Lulled on his mother's br<
With dove-like breathing
Brooding above the sluml
While through the stillne
Lo, the dread work of
Temple and pyramid beyi
Regal and still as everlasi
Vain pomps! from Him v
Soft shadowed by his mot
I would not put aside the tradrti
with his mother and Joseph, had
at the sycamore-tree which grows
that at this fountain they drank,
tainly as good and authentic as 1
Catholic priests get up at Jerusalen
The Church of St. George. T
show you the grotto of St. Sergius
and Joseph lived and slept. Near l]
There is one convent at Alexa:
of St. Mark. The Copts here pretej
body of St. Mark, but Leo Africanu|
it away. It is filled with Daintings!
L o
c
o
O
©
r 06
I- O
P o
i O