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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 113
the late captain Hayes of the engineers, who accompanied
Mr. Hamilton, are in a plain near the foot of a part of the
Mokattam, which rises boldly behind them, and is so singu-
larly broken into masses, that I was surprised they had never
formed part of the picture in which the portico is repre-
sented. It was here, as 1 have observed in my preface, that
our sepoys, in their march from Keenah to join the army of
Lord Hutchinson, imagined they had found their own tem-
ples, and were very angry with the Egyptians for their
neglect of their deities. I have understood from English
officers who accompanied the Indian army, that the sepoys
performed their devotions in these temples with all the cere-
monies practised in India. This event affords a strong proof
of that connexion in remote antiquity which the researches
of the late Sir William Jones's society at Calcutta have led
the learned there to believe between Egypt and India. I
cannot help again remarking, that an inquiry into this con-
nexion might serve to explain many obscure points of ancient
history, now wholly lost in fables, and Avould be worthy the
attention of those who favour the pursuits of literature and
the arts; and that a traveller in Egypt, capable of com-
paring his remarks there with what he would find in British
India, might accomplish this great and desirable task.
I left Dendyra with regret on the 29th of June, and
having stopped at the other remains of Egyptian architecture
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the late captain Hayes of the engineers, who accompanied
Mr. Hamilton, are in a plain near the foot of a part of the
Mokattam, which rises boldly behind them, and is so singu-
larly broken into masses, that I was surprised they had never
formed part of the picture in which the portico is repre-
sented. It was here, as 1 have observed in my preface, that
our sepoys, in their march from Keenah to join the army of
Lord Hutchinson, imagined they had found their own tem-
ples, and were very angry with the Egyptians for their
neglect of their deities. I have understood from English
officers who accompanied the Indian army, that the sepoys
performed their devotions in these temples with all the cere-
monies practised in India. This event affords a strong proof
of that connexion in remote antiquity which the researches
of the late Sir William Jones's society at Calcutta have led
the learned there to believe between Egypt and India. I
cannot help again remarking, that an inquiry into this con-
nexion might serve to explain many obscure points of ancient
history, now wholly lost in fables, and Avould be worthy the
attention of those who favour the pursuits of literature and
the arts; and that a traveller in Egypt, capable of com-
paring his remarks there with what he would find in British
India, might accomplish this great and desirable task.
I left Dendyra with regret on the 29th of June, and
having stopped at the other remains of Egyptian architecture
Q