Identifier: holylandwithglim00phel (find matches)
Title: Holy Land, with glimpes of Europe and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Phelps, S(ylvanus) D(ryden), 1816-1895. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (8th ed.) New Haven, C. C. Chatfield & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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from home and news from thebusy world, beyond the pale of which we had seemedto be excluded so long. I had dreamed the nightbefore of getting two letters for myself and two for oneof our party at the bankers, and on inquiry there foundthe dream as trulv realized as had been the dreams ofJoseph. Egypt must be a good place to dream in. Another fair morning and a fine ride over the fieldsbrought me face to face with the marvelous Sphinxand at the feet of hoary, old Cheops. A marked dayin a tourists life! As I approached the Great Pyra-mid, I was somewhat disappointed in its size until Icame quite near it, when it seemed at once to expandto a magnitude quite overwhelming. One looks up tothe vast pile, silent and spell-bound. A sense of awecomes over him, with a new idea of the power of manand the perpetuity of his works. I could now easilyconceive how this stupendous monument might coverfull twelve acres of ground. A single side of itssquare base is more than seven hundred and fifty feet
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ASCENT OF CHEOPS. 201 long. Nearly five hundred feet in perpendicularheight, its four slopes are very steep and seem to blendin a point at the top. A party half way up appear likebirds or squirrels on a church steeple. Each side is avast stairway of stone layers from a foot and a half tofour feet in thickness, each layer being indented a footor little more, allowing that much for the width ofthe successive steps. It is somewhat difficult and dan^gerous to climb over the higher steps, for if one shouldlose his footing at any considerable height he wouldlikely roll to the bottom with every limb and bonebroken. About forty gentlemen and ladies ascendedwhile we were there, but all I believe were assisted bythe Arabs except myself. Two of these half-nakedand impudent fellows seize their victim by the hand,one on each side, and drag him or her up, begging,flattering and threatening for bucksheesh, though theyhave already been paid. 1 determined to go up with-out their help. I had scarcely b

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