The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-08
Lecture ON Egypt.

Last evening Rev. T. Thompson deve red his second
lecture Egypt, at the Tabernacle before very re.
spectacle audience His subject was-"Thebes' Temples
and Palaces, the vocal Memnon Rurnak by Moonlight
&C. He began by saying, that to enjoy the scenery
Egypt the traveller should have sufficient time to thor
oue bly, examine the country We were said the lecturer
twenty eight days getting up the Nile far as Tebes
but on return it took only eighteen days to de-
scend the river The traveller should 60 re at the
right season Of the yearno when the Nile was over
flowed, nor when the very warm-but he shsuld
arrive in December, and remain there until March Of
late years steamboat has piled up and down he Nile
under the patronage of the Pacha But for his part he
boat the only ad, antage derived being the escape
beggars fer everybody in Egypt is beggar. The
Boys e. all nss & at al times and
all occasions assa your with the cry of Buckshee
"Buckshee The meaning Of this word is ,'Give me-"
traveller ascends the Nile he should always take advan
tage OF the wind They should not stop to anything
along the sho while the north wind blows but coming
down the river they might the current in their
favor inspect all the ruins as they vent along He then
wished to direct their attention to the City of Thebes
Before, however, describing the city, he back to
the early history and foundation of the great city by
Aenas The earliest history Of this city, said the lee
might be the contradictions of Herodotus the Bible was
in his estimation entitled to respect Inasmuch there
submitted that the records of Moses entitled more
respect than the writings of Herodotus The ruins of the
lower part OF Egypt remarkable. Their
great age might seem exaggeration, but when scup
ture was to be found unimpaed any in this city
containing the and deeds of monarchs inscribed
thereon who lived about 900 years ago there could be
mistake about the date of their erection. Upon the
tombs inscribed the and customs Of thA
country at that time Here then ample material for
correct history Of Egypt provided have the KEY. In
places they could and the rames Of the ancient
monarchs inscribed in an oval form on the tombs The
key to the Egyptian language discovered merely
thrt ugh the ingenuity of Dr. Young and was given in
Rosetta stone These stones had inscriptions in three
anguages-n the Greek, in the language and in
herogyphics The Egyptian alphabet found by him
be pictorial and phonetic and by the key thus found many
Of these herogyphics have been very ntelgiby read
The audience knew that Egypt was colonized by the
children Of the Fast by tbs chdre of Ham and 1t is
well established fact that civilization extended from the
north to the south II began in the region Of Alexandria,
and from thence extended south far Thebes Egypt
is agricultural country and yields abunda ntly the
ne e.saries Of human lfe They told that the
gon OF the Nile was peoped by seventy millions of
people The attention Of these people early turned
70 astronomy 1t appears that the early government Of
that country was hierarchy, in which the priesthood
were the government. However, monarchy sprung up
very early, under the pi e Of Nen,s who built the
city az Memphis, and turned the Nile by an immense
dyke 50 a. to secure the site Of the city This city sup
posed to have ouIbed about 1920 years before Christ
Tbebc- WAS built GEO years before Rome. Toe lee
turer then proceeded TO give history of this
country from It's first colonization up the present
time. After the Exodus King Reme4is from WHOM
sprung great ofmoparchs, and whose successors
aided greatly TO me beauty o. Ihebes These mosarchs
the erection Of the Colossus Of Memnon the ms.t stu
pcndous statue raised, the weight IL which
tmaed Ia be about eight hundred and eighty tons
II Il seventy five feet high twenty eight feet 10 diameter
foutocp feet from 10 ear. extreme breadth of the
by ffy feet, and the shoulder alone i sixteen feet
high fambyses, Emperor ~ Persia who invaded Egypt
destroyed that statue which cut out ~ sod stone
aud how II 10 be transported from the nearest
quarry about sixty miles Distant, for modern arch
tocts 10 discover After the invasion Of Egypt By Cam
byses The Greeks took possei Of the country, after
them The Romans after them the Arabs, and lastly the
Turks. have travelled up the Nile, said the lecturer,
as far Thebes where both sides Of tho river tho
mountains receded, there there Ia open space Of
absut sixty miles, The river flowing through the centre q