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10G THE MONUMENTS OF UWEli EGYPT.
which he can choose. He can either hire don-
keys at Cairo and ride the whole way to the
colossus of Mitrahenny (the donkey boys know
the way and would serve as guides), or he can
send forward the donkeys to Bedreshayn which
is the nearest station to Mitrahenny on the
Upper Egypt railway, in which case he would
take a carriage from Cairo to Geezeh, and would
continue his journey by train from Geezeh. This
is the favorite route, especially with those who
have not much time to spare or who dread the
fatigue of a long journey, to and fro, on donkey-
back.
Memphis was in all probability the largest city
in Egypt, and if, as we believe, the step-shaped
Pyramid at Sakkarah belongs to the Ist dynast)',
Memphis may assuredly boast of an antiquity
that Thinis alone can rival. A palace " of bar-
barous construction" was to be found here as
well as at Heliopolis.
Explorations have not confirmed the assertion
of Strabo, who describes Memphis as reaching to
the foot of the Libyan chain. Memphis, on the
contrary, seems to have been shut in between the
Bahr-Jousef on the one side and the Nile on the
other, and thus to have been a city of an ex-
which he can choose. He can either hire don-
keys at Cairo and ride the whole way to the
colossus of Mitrahenny (the donkey boys know
the way and would serve as guides), or he can
send forward the donkeys to Bedreshayn which
is the nearest station to Mitrahenny on the
Upper Egypt railway, in which case he would
take a carriage from Cairo to Geezeh, and would
continue his journey by train from Geezeh. This
is the favorite route, especially with those who
have not much time to spare or who dread the
fatigue of a long journey, to and fro, on donkey-
back.
Memphis was in all probability the largest city
in Egypt, and if, as we believe, the step-shaped
Pyramid at Sakkarah belongs to the Ist dynast)',
Memphis may assuredly boast of an antiquity
that Thinis alone can rival. A palace " of bar-
barous construction" was to be found here as
well as at Heliopolis.
Explorations have not confirmed the assertion
of Strabo, who describes Memphis as reaching to
the foot of the Libyan chain. Memphis, on the
contrary, seems to have been shut in between the
Bahr-Jousef on the one side and the Nile on the
other, and thus to have been a city of an ex-