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and lower egypt. II3
A wide extent of sand and dust, an accumula-
tion of rubbish, was an abode worthy of the co-
lony of Alexandria, and every day they were la-
bouring hard to increase the horror of it. Co-
lumns subverted and scattered about; a few others
still upright, but isolated; mutilated statues, ca-
pitals, entablatures, fragments of every species
overspread the ground with which it is surround-
ed. It is impossible to advance a step, without
kicking, if I may use the expression, against some
of those wrecks. It is the hideous theatre of de-
struction the most horrible. The soul is sadden-
ed, on contemplating those remains of grandeur
and magnificence, and is roused into indignation
against the barbarians who dared to apply a sacri-
legious hand to monuments which time, the most
pitiless of devourers, would have respected.
vol. 4.
A wide extent of sand and dust, an accumula-
tion of rubbish, was an abode worthy of the co-
lony of Alexandria, and every day they were la-
bouring hard to increase the horror of it. Co-
lumns subverted and scattered about; a few others
still upright, but isolated; mutilated statues, ca-
pitals, entablatures, fragments of every species
overspread the ground with which it is surround-
ed. It is impossible to advance a step, without
kicking, if I may use the expression, against some
of those wrecks. It is the hideous theatre of de-
struction the most horrible. The soul is sadden-
ed, on contemplating those remains of grandeur
and magnificence, and is roused into indignation
against the barbarians who dared to apply a sacri-
legious hand to monuments which time, the most
pitiless of devourers, would have respected.
vol. 4.