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Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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. In the centrestands a red granite Sarcophagus, in whichKing Cheops was buried, ages before thetime of Moses. The air here was so stiflingthat we did not tarry long, and were glad toescape into the open air once more. Thesecond and third pyramids are somewhatless in size than that of Cheops; and the sixothers comparatively small. In front of thegreat pyramid and facing the river is theSphinx. This most fantastic animal hasever been looked upon as one of the greatestwonders of Egypt. A colossal female headrises above the sand, attached to the bodyof a lioness, about which excavations havebeen made so as to show its form hewnfrom the solid rock. The features have thethick lips and high cbeek bones of the Nubianwhich was the type of beauty to the ancientEgyptians. The circumference of the headmeasures over one hundred feet.Time and ill-usage have made sad havocwith the monstrous face, but there is aplacid beauty about its features, an abstract-ed expression, resembling the large Budhist
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237 idols of Japan and India. The conceptionis a grand one, and well calculated to inspirewith terror the weak minds of its worship-ers. As we ride back to Cairo we turn back togaze upon these marvelous structures, andare lost in amazement at the immenseamount of labor expended for no practicalutility. If their !»ole object was to perpet-uate the names of the builders—Pharaohs,Kings and Priests—whatever their titlesmay have been, how futile the attempt atimmortality, for the names of the buildershave in most cases passed away.Proud monuments of kings, whose verynames Have perished from the records of the past. W. P. F. / ■

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  • booksubject:Voyages_around_the_world
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