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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
country in the world. In the words of an old
traveller, " Time sadly overcometh all things, and
is now dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and
looketh into Memphis and old Thebes, while his
sister Oblivion reclineth semi-sominous on a pyra-
mid, gloriously triumphing and turning old glo-
ries into dreams. History siriketh beneath her
cloud. The traveller, as he passeth amazedly
through those deserts, asketh of her who builded
them, and she mumbleth something, but what it is
he heareth not."
It is now more than three thousand years since
the curse went forth against the land of Egypt.
The Assyrian, the Persian, the Greek, the Roman,
the Arabian, the Georgian, the Circassian, and the
Ottoman Turk have successively trodden it down
and trampled upon it; for thirty centuries the foot
of a stranger has been upon the necks of her'in-
habitants ; and in bidding farewell to this once
favoured land, now lying in the most abject deg-
radation and misery, groaning under the iron rod
of a tyrant and a stranger, I cannot help recurring
to the inspired words, the doom of prophecy : " It
shall be the basest of the kingdoms, neither shall it
exalt itself any more among the nations; and there
shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt."
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
country in the world. In the words of an old
traveller, " Time sadly overcometh all things, and
is now dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and
looketh into Memphis and old Thebes, while his
sister Oblivion reclineth semi-sominous on a pyra-
mid, gloriously triumphing and turning old glo-
ries into dreams. History siriketh beneath her
cloud. The traveller, as he passeth amazedly
through those deserts, asketh of her who builded
them, and she mumbleth something, but what it is
he heareth not."
It is now more than three thousand years since
the curse went forth against the land of Egypt.
The Assyrian, the Persian, the Greek, the Roman,
the Arabian, the Georgian, the Circassian, and the
Ottoman Turk have successively trodden it down
and trampled upon it; for thirty centuries the foot
of a stranger has been upon the necks of her'in-
habitants ; and in bidding farewell to this once
favoured land, now lying in the most abject deg-
radation and misery, groaning under the iron rod
of a tyrant and a stranger, I cannot help recurring
to the inspired words, the doom of prophecy : " It
shall be the basest of the kingdoms, neither shall it
exalt itself any more among the nations; and there
shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt."