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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The softer layers, yielding more rapidly to the actionof decay, leave ponderous ridges of harder stone asa girdle to the hill; our cut exhibits this, froma sketch taken near the town. The Nile, a littlefarther on, is like a very broad lake; but in winteris very shallow, so that boats were continually gratingthe ground; and the men who jumped in to pushthem off, never went deeper than the knees in water.Even our row-boat occasionally grounded. Themountain range on the Arabian shore continues toincrease in height and grandeur, until it culminates
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BOULAK TO MINIEH. 117 in the noble cliffs at Gebel Sheikh Emberak, whichreminded me in one part of our cliffs at Dover.After a few miles the mountains again recede, andleave a fertile plain, in the midst of which liesSharouna, another good example of a country town,forming the subject of Plate IV. The houses aregenerally gaily painted in red and white, seeming toshow the debased remnants of an old Egyptian style;the bricks are arranged so as to form a ventilatingpattern on the walls, and an open parapet is generallyon the house-top. The doors of many houses weredecorated with carved and coloured beams of wood,and over the centre of one I saw an earthenwareEnglish plate, of the world-renowned willowpattern, inserted in the wall as an ornament, afterthe fashion of the old Moorish tiles in the Alhambra,and the Della-Eobbia terra-cottas in Italy. Shar-ouna is a large, straggling place ; its inhabitants seemto be exclusively husbandmen, and to cultivate thesugar-cane largely,—enormous bu

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