The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-22

held the chief link In the chain which bound
Egypt and Memphis to Rome. A few Year,
ago there was sill trace Of an eagle cArved
bestde the aroh. and everything b In . style
wholly foreign and different from the native
Egyptian work To the English archeolo-
gist this Roman castle Is peculiarly interest
ing. Just Us our Royal Engineers built o
banack at Agra and one at Armagh on the
same lines and in the same styles, 30 that
the Romans had but one general pattern for
their pr~etorium, whether it was situated at
Colchester or Paris, on the anube or on
the Nile. Just such n fortress as this
formed the kernel of old London. Its
foundations with the banded masonry and
the semi circular bastions were discovered
when the soil OF Cannon Street was upturned
for the new station Long before the wall
was drawn round the outer ring Of suburbs,
before the British London had become the
Roman Augusta, q fortress, which mi
have closely resembled this at the Egyptian
d ,byltn, crowned the hill on the eastern
bank Of the Walbrook, and commanded the
title port ut Dowgate below.
THE DEFEScEs.
Very different in every way is the fort at
DaSkeh in Subia, yet strangely hk another
type OF military architecture with which We
are familiar in England. The voyager who
ascends beyond the First Cataract finds
himself In a narrow valley shut in by granite
hills, and only sees here and there q space
wide enough for cultivation. There are
buildings OF all ages and kinds, chiefly
temples; and at intervals, where the sand
stone ridges approach the Nile, he finds vast
g~rottoes carved in the face OF the cliff, the
greatest OF all being the furthest-namely,
the Temple OF the Sun at Aboshek, better
known as Ipsambool. Amid this wealth Of
architectural romans, the best Of them on
the western bank, the castle opposite Oak
ken. ON the eastern bank Is very often
passed by unvisited. Yet it well repays n
visit. though the visitor wishes in vain for
some one competent to describe the defen-
cos rs Mr.. Clark would describe q Norman
Keep In England. For, though it Is built
OF crude brick-that Is to say, Of midland
though 1t Is 700 miles from the sen, and
though II Is one Of tho oldest buildings In
the world. having been erected $500 years
at least before the White Tower, yet to tho
eyes Of an English traveller II resembles
nothing In the world 30 much as the Keep
OF Rochester or Of Guildford. There 70 tho
ditch, with scarp and counterscarp- Thore
are square towers overlapping the corners
There are flat buttrcsses not reaching the.
top Of the wall, Therea re gates with narrow
walls and signs OF drawbridges There is q
covered way down to the waters edge. We
might be exploring a castle on the Thames
or the Dec except for Che material Of which
1t Is built The walls, some fourteen foot
thick at least. and still in places not less
than forty in height, are all formed Of great
blocks Of sund dried mud, very like the sods
Of peat ono secs In Scotland or Ireland.
Here and there the impress Of the makers
hand may DO found, and you may lay your
hngers into the very marks loft by n man
OF tiesh and blood, OF nerves and muscles, Of
skin with a thousand delicate limos such us
you sec In your own palm, yet who livod
and labored and died moro thnn three thous-
and years g q. Some Of tho marks are
small, and must be those of a womnn's
hand; for female labor, by which to-day
tho new streets Of Cairo are built was. no
doubt, thor rule in Egypt under Hatasoo as
1t Ia under Ismael. OF the history of tho
fortress opposite Dakkeh, of its very namo,
we know nothing. Centuries before Joseph
or Moses, centuries before the siego Of Troy,
tens Of centuries before William tho Nor.
man, monarchs had castles built for them,
and employed the labor Of their subjects TO
forge and strengthen sheir own chains--
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