Identifier: lettersoftravelj00sher (find matches)
Title: Letters of travel : journey in the Bermudas, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, 1894 : in Mexico, 1896, in Canada, 1898 : in Egypt, Holy Land, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France, 1900 : in Morocco, Spain, Algiers, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Belgium and London, 1903
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Sherrick, Johnson
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: (Canton, Ohio : J. Sherrick)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s, carved with queer caricatures,all representing something of importance to thepeople of that time. I must not forget to mention Karnak, near thetown of Luxor, although now much ruined, itonce was the largest and greatest temple ofThebes. Nearly four thousand years ago thisgreat edifice stood in all its beauty. It must havebeen a grand sight with its avenue lined by twohundred enormous statues leading to the temple,and many others with porticos and archways lead-ing in every direction from this wonderful struct-ure. A glorious portal opens into a vast courtcrowded with a perfect forest of the most mag^nifi-cent columns covered with hieroglyphics, and richlypainted. But now forty centuries have come andgone; time has dimmed its beauty and ages havebeen leveling it down. Its crumbling dust liesdarkening the horizon where once its portalsand obelisks stood in all their grandeur. We passedunder a large archway and along the avenue ofsphinxs, whose heads are broken off, but their ped- 252
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estals and bodies remain unmoved since the timeof Joseph. I though, as I was standing withinthose walls of the wonderful endurance of thatnoble edifice, and how long it has withstood theravages of time, and I wondered, as I looked at thegrand old Nile winding its way between its shoresand over the sands just as it flowed since this worldbegan, if it will ever cease or even change its path tothe sea. The tombs of the kings hewn out of solid rockare also near Luxor. Some recede into the mountaina distance of five hundred feet. All were made atthe expense of much labor and were intended as aplace where the kingly bodies might forever restin safety. In 1871 there was discovered a largetomb filled with coffins, heaped one upon another.This important find was concealed for awhile, butafter a few years it became known to the govern-ment, an investigation followed, and the result isthe museums are filled now with mummies. We landed here at Assouan from the steamer xWednesday evening, after a

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