Identifier: upnilehomeagainh00fair (find matches)
Title: Up the Nile, and home again. A handbook for travellers and a travel-book for the library.
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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anes between them ankle-deep with light sand, and infested by troublesomedogs and disagreeable people. Indeed Edfou maybear the palm for bold beggary, which is nowhererifer than on the banks of the Nile. It is pleasant to turn to a more cheering theme—the protection of the monuments by the Egyptiangovernment, and the exhumation of one of the finest.The Pasha does not now permit foreigners to do asthey please in damaging buildings or carrying offfragments; and he has been steadily employed inclearing others from the rubbish which for a^es hasconcealed them. This has deen done with eminentsuccess at Edfou. The representations of this finetemple by Roberts, Bartlett, and other artists, arenow to be referred to as curious pictures of what itused to be, when buried nearly to the roof by thesands which had drifted over it for centuries.Wilkinson savs, The whole of the interior is somuch concealed by the houses of the inhabitantsthat a very small part of it is accessible, through a PI.XVI.
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THEBES TO EDFOU. 353 narrow aperture, and can only be examined with theassistance of a light; and this is more to beregretted as the people are most troublesome.Bartlett says, The interior is almost filled up withrubbish, and, imperfectly seen, as it needs must be,hardly repays the trouble of groping through heapsof dust and filth. Xow, all this has been removed,and the result is the display of one of the mostperfect and beautiful temples in Egypt. It has beenentirely freed, from interior to roof, of all obstruc-tions, and the Arab huts that once covered its roofremoved. The effect is magical, and the buildingonly seems to want its priests and sacred utensils torealise its ancient glories as in Egypts palmy days.The grand gate-towers, with gigantic figures of gods,admit the visitor to an open court, surrounded by apillared cloister from which small side chapels areentered. Crossing the court, a vast hall, supportedby varied and massive columns, covered with hiero-glyphics, and richly

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