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ALEXANDRIA TO CAIRO.
was a great Jewish settlement in this neighborhood gives a certain measure of plausi-
bility to the legend. The tree itself, though evidently of great age, cannot be as
ancient as the legend affirms.
The road now leads through a wide plain, covered with a luxuriant growth of sugar-
cane. From amidst the broad green glossy leaves a single column of red granite rises,
covered from summit to base with hieroglyphics. It is the sole relic above the soil of
THE CITADEL AT CAIRO.
the once famous City of the Sun—The Heliopolis ol Herodotus and Strabo, the
Bethshemesh of Jeremiah,1 the On of Joseph.2 To this great university city of ancient
Egypt, Plato, Eudoxus, and the wisest of the Greeks, came to be initiated into the
mystic lore of the priests. Here, as Manetho tells us, Moses was instructed in all the
learning of the Egyptians. This solitary column, raised about a century before the
1 Jeremiah xliii. 13. 2 Genesis xli. 45.
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was a great Jewish settlement in this neighborhood gives a certain measure of plausi-
bility to the legend. The tree itself, though evidently of great age, cannot be as
ancient as the legend affirms.
The road now leads through a wide plain, covered with a luxuriant growth of sugar-
cane. From amidst the broad green glossy leaves a single column of red granite rises,
covered from summit to base with hieroglyphics. It is the sole relic above the soil of
THE CITADEL AT CAIRO.
the once famous City of the Sun—The Heliopolis ol Herodotus and Strabo, the
Bethshemesh of Jeremiah,1 the On of Joseph.2 To this great university city of ancient
Egypt, Plato, Eudoxus, and the wisest of the Greeks, came to be initiated into the
mystic lore of the priests. Here, as Manetho tells us, Moses was instructed in all the
learning of the Egyptians. This solitary column, raised about a century before the
1 Jeremiah xliii. 13. 2 Genesis xli. 45.
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