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made by king Amunoph to the contemplar deities;
and near the door are represented this Pharaoh and
his father Thothmes IV. On one of the jambs of
the door, the name of king Osirei has usurped the
place of his ancestor's prenomen; and on the wall
beyond is a tablet of the forty-first year of Remeses
II., in which the fourth son of that Pharaoh, a
priest of Pthah, is attending his father in the capa-
city of fan-bearer.

On returning from this ruin, and following the
bed of the valley, nearly opposite the naos of
Remeses, the geologist may examine the numerous
ponds on whose brink crystallizes a quantity of
natron, and which may be seen in greater abun-
dance in a valley to the north of Mahamid.

But of all that Eilethyas now presents to the
antiquary, nothing can equal, in point of interest,
the grottoes in the mountain to the north of the
ancient town.

The first sculptured tomb to the eastward is most
interesting as a chronological monument, since it
contains the names of several monarchs who
reigned at the commencement of the eighteenth
dynasty, from Amosis to Amunoph II.

Above this is a larger grotto, still in good pre-
servation, containing coloured drawings relating to
agricultural and other occupations of the early
Egyptians; but the outlines of the figures and the
subjects here detailed, though so highly praised

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