The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-23

l "Ss~Sp SAAN ~oAAS1NSs ~ SAS
from the time. OF .Pammetticus to the sub
version Of the empire. Little, now re-
mains of the, city, It stood on the east Of
this branch and some distance below the
forks, From Bowlack. we viii ride into
Cairo on donkey. y..z.a, al. ,s.f, ses S.. i
= Ig as@fa h.sE y,te CAIRO. sy.ss9 ssf .Ft ao 4
This city was built chiefly by the Turks
and Arabs. after the Saracens- gained pos.
sessions, having taken the country from
the Romans, six hundred and forty, A. ..
4 Amour being the general and Omar of
Demsscus being the Calf and supreme
ruler Of the Saracens. s ..,,....-..s.s. i
+ Retween Cairo and the river, about
4 two miles distant, are the ruins of old Cal
70, once called Fostut; tihs was once
Roman city. Cairo contains prehsps one
! hundred and fifty thousand inhabitant,.
! where may be seen and heard all styles Of
dress, all Languages, and all shades, Of
complication. Portions of the old wall
:, and gates still surrounl the city Cairo
contains many beautiful Mosques, where
may be seen the varieties Of ground sar-
i basynie architecture, The center of the
t city is, delightful, and elsewhere filthy
In the east on the Mocatam hills are many
otsplendid tombs, some of them are. those
$ Fof the Mamlooks, and probably all were
e. built since the christian era. Turkish
+ guards may be seen at different points
Z around the city, In Cairo we Shall find
f two hotels for Englishmen, the British
: Hotel, kept BY Mr.. West, and the Euro
: pean, by NJ. SHEPPARD. , ,...q, -.
= Heliopilis is prchaps about eight miles
! northeast from Cairo. Rhoda is beau
tiful small Island in the river directly west
$ fof Cairo, upon it is a fine garden, and a
! palace Of the Pasha. This island is sup
n posed to have been the residence of Pha-
= rio, and here the bullrushes among which
r the kings daughter found Moses, south
west of Cairo is the supposed site Of Mem
# phis, long time the capitol of lower
n Egypt. It has long since perished and
e disappeared. - -.
e Nothing now remains yisable except the
81 Calosus statue, some fifty or sixty feet
long. lying face downward in the mud
9 The soil is the deposite Of the Nile, and
the sand brought by the wind from the
$ desert, which have probably covered up
g the departed city Explorations which
e are now going forward will undoubtedly
d discover many Of its ruins S'''-'.'&'l' %
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# Ancieft Egypt abouhded in these un.
Il natural monsters Of stone, some of which
z in a greater or less state of preservation,
= are still to beseen in various places, bu,
= when allusion is 'made4t the sphinf Stha
one at Gin Is always intended On an
: elevation above the AlIuvian, stands this
! gigantic stone image, resembling the head
y and neck Of a fema1e,8 crowned with the
:, Egyptian wig The features are much
: mutilated. have often heard it assert
! ! ed in America that the Sphoenix was the
!, exact representative Of a negroes, and
the inference drawn from this has been;
! that, the ancient learned, and shillful
Egyptians were all negroes.s The truth
: is, the image does mot now represent def
), inately the feature Of eny race: nose, lips
= and all having been sadly battered by
! mahonetan superstition. The highth Of
/ the present image is about forty feet, bu'
!, tits asserted, that partly or wholly burri.
: ed in the sand,s is the body OF a lion
:, whose forepaws anciently extended some
\ fifty feet in advance. e1'Between these
limbs stood the famous Monelithic temple,
;, where devotions were offered to the Gods
: Of Egypt probably the sacred Nile. 3. 1si
1.-THE great Sphoenix is one the most
o striking and interesting movements in the
q vicinity of the ancient capitol of Egypt
# and well deserves its place by the side Of
d the great pyramid. Itplaees the travle,
4 as he approaches by theroute by which
>. we came, that is, from the east, and
!, though overshadow'd by the pyramids not
far from which it stands, \ it wears somas-
! sive and SO imposing an appearance, thai
. it may we'll claim attention, and may well
). increase his wonder at the mighty remains
which have survived the lapse of thou
3 sands of years; cut out of the solid rocky
# basis, on which the pyramids are built,
!, and looking fourth toward the rising sun,
= over the broad plain between it and the
/ range of hills in the distance, even now
= almost covered with the sand Of the de-
q sert, and dis6gured and injured by the
! hand of violence 1t is an image of sstri-
= king gimpressiveness. and doubt not was
). reverenced and worshipped by the searly
v Egyptians with the deepest solemnity.---
IS Even in its present condition, injured as
:. it has been by the nose being broken off,
: and much. of the ornaments of the head
:. being removedTit is an image which nc
!, one can pass BY unheeded;s how much
! more grand and impressive must it have