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THE LAND OF GOSHEN.
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colossi, and no less than twelve broken obelisks, lie by the side of less important monuments
in grand confusion on the earth. An Arab legend relates that the Pharaohs were giants, who
could move the mightiest masses of rock with a magic rod ; but if it needed giants to erect
these monuments, it must have required the will and the strength of a god thus to overthrow
THE "VIRGIN'S TREE."
At the time of the inauguration of the Suez Canal this tree was presented to the Empress Eugenie by the Khedive. The garden in which it stands
is watered by means of a double sakiyeh supplied from a reservoir fed by springs.
them." Around the fallen stones desolation and solitude hold their dreary sway, and a chaos
of mounds and ruins, wrapped close in silence and neglect, is all that is left of Zoan.
The same fate has fallen on all the cities of the eastern Delta. Where are all the fortresses
that defended the Syrian border, where now the ships of commerce steam peacefully through
367
colossi, and no less than twelve broken obelisks, lie by the side of less important monuments
in grand confusion on the earth. An Arab legend relates that the Pharaohs were giants, who
could move the mightiest masses of rock with a magic rod ; but if it needed giants to erect
these monuments, it must have required the will and the strength of a god thus to overthrow
THE "VIRGIN'S TREE."
At the time of the inauguration of the Suez Canal this tree was presented to the Empress Eugenie by the Khedive. The garden in which it stands
is watered by means of a double sakiyeh supplied from a reservoir fed by springs.
them." Around the fallen stones desolation and solitude hold their dreary sway, and a chaos
of mounds and ruins, wrapped close in silence and neglect, is all that is left of Zoan.
The same fate has fallen on all the cities of the eastern Delta. Where are all the fortresses
that defended the Syrian border, where now the ships of commerce steam peacefully through