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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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uring three thou-sand ! It might naturally be supposed that monu-ments so useful as these have been in testifying tothe minute truth of Bible history, and of the oldesthistorians in the world, would be respected as analmost equally sacred bequest from the past. Yetmen of learning, whose reputations have been madeby the study and explication of these very monu-ments, have not scrupled to mutilate them in themost reckless way; and men of title have notshamed to try for worthless immortality by cuttingtheir names upon art-works so precious. Surely arightly constituted mind would shrink from thisdisgraceful notoriety. The titled names are Italian,which makes the Vandalism more surprising \ but allEurope seems, by the names inscribed, to glory inthe practice, against which the most indignantremonstrance should be raised, or in a very fewyears the world will only possess the pictured resem-blance of the works of art so wantonly and rudelydestroyed, and that by nations who so loudly boast of
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MTNIEH TO SIOUT, 145 a march of intellect, and who are so ready to phari-saically revile the Oriental peoples. The most northern tomb, or that nearest to thevisitor as he ascends the river, is the most interestingof the series, and the most elaborately decorated.A portico, supported by two columns, is in front ofthe entrance—a square door surrounded by lines ofhieroglyphics. On entering, a grand hall or vaultedchamber opens to the view. It is supported byfour massive columns, similar to those seen at theentrance; each column has sixteen slightly-flutedsides, and supports an abacus, the whole bearing sostriking a resemblance to the Doric order, that it isevident the Greeks obtained this their earliest archi-tectural style from such more ancient monuments.The triple vault of the ceiling is filled with colouredornament, in compartments. In front of theentrance is a small shrine, which, like the entrancegate, is surrounded by lines of hieroglyphic inscrip-tion. Broken figures, a triad o

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