The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

III AlS Cal A0 ASSelfeo VIC unhappy cap
tives, whose armies are painfully bound
behind them; scribes enumerate the hands
of the slain and even more disgusting me-
MORALS of the ba, barity of oriental war
fare, which are heaped upon him; and the
history of these exploits supposed to re-
cord victories our then Asatic enemies,
appears in the accompanying hieroglyph-
ic tablets.
VOCAL MENNON.
Of the vocal Memnon and the Assas-
sief, Mrs. Romer thus speaks:
"On our way there we road by the two
colossal statues, gigantic rs those that
guard the portals of Lbsamboul, which
are seated on the plain of Thebes, their
backs to the Lybian mountains, their faces
turned to the river, looking like the ruins
of another world. The most northern
of these Collosi is generally admitted to
be the vocal statue of Memnon the fabu-i
lous attributes of which have been sung
and cited by the poets and sages of anti
Fquity and are worthy of the beautiful in
ventions which invest even the grosser
portions of the Greek mythology with
such poetical charm The SO called
memnon however, is according to Sir
Gardner Wilkinson, the Pharao ANU
nophz. The Vocal statue silent now as
the desert in which it stands, has been so
defaced that not a feature has escaped the
general destruction, yet the outline of the
Ligure remains uninjured, and in its calm
majesty is imposing beyond language
to convey. The lower part Of the statue
is hewn out of one block of sand stone,
and the legs still bear the ancient Greek
inscriptions that testify to monarchs and
men of science from distant lands, having
heard those musical sounds which caused
the statue to receive it's name. The up
per part is composed of five layers of
stone in blocks, cemented together as in
the walks of an edefce, and this singular
difference between the two parts would
appear to bear out the supposition advan-
ced by some authors that the statue of
Memnon was originally formed of one
block of stone, and that it had been rent
into and the upper portion destroyed by
an earthquake, for the piecemeal upper
part looks like a restoration much more
than like an original creation. The other
COLOSSUS is cut out of one enormous block
of stone and its proportions and attitude
are precisely similar to those Of the fa-
nous Memnon.
The appearance Of these two gigantic
guardians of the plain of ruins which have
immoveably maintained there posts amidst
the transmutations of more than three
thousand years has in it something both
awful and sublime. Empires and dynas-
ties have been swept away, as it were,
from their feet and have vanished like the
shadows of the night, and century follow,
ing century, has been engulphed in the
great ocean of eternity, even as the waves
Of the Nile, rolling onward before their
eyes empty themselves into the sea, and
still they have remained unchanged, like
the personifcation of Inexorable Fate,
glaring with frightful calm, upon the ru-
ined fabric of human happiness and pros
perity. They look like remnants of anoth-
er world and work of race Of beings
wholly different, that now people the earth
they would almost reconcile me to the be-
lief in the reality of the Preadamite Sui
tans.
The tombs of the Assassosief are
wholly distinct from the tombs of the
kings having been the private sepulchers
of the rich Thebans. The largest and
finest of them was excavated for the
priest and prophet, Petamenoph and his
family whose name and titles are sculp-
tured upon fine gate way of rose color
ed granite erected at Medinot Habon.-
The approach to the Assassosief is thro'
a valley in the desert, where nothing but
sands and rock are to be seen below and
the intense blue of the sunny sky above;
and the way lies across what must have
been the ancient metropolis of Thebes, a
dreary tract, honey -combed with series
of pitfalls, through which one risks to
tumble head foremost into the rihed cata-
combs. Aware that not half the wonders
of Thebes are described and yet concious
that the reader will become weary with
long and minute delneations which, with
out beholding the paintings, he can but
, imperfectly comprehend, we will spre ad
our sail and leaving this extensive valley
OF magnificent ruins, and haste away up
the river to other localities that demand a
passing notice.
V Esnek is a modern town of some i'm
h portance, 1t has cotton factory and some
other works OF value. The bazaae is well
4 supplied with variety of merchandise
Most of the houset of the mud or unburnt
o. brick; the chief import once attached te
= Esnek, consists in the portico and ruined