The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12

passage between SIX Handsomely carved
columns reaching upwards to transverse
stone cross piece, all perfect, save the
sixth-which has at its top parted from its
opposite mate, leaning at an agile of 30 de-
grees, still clinging to its immense weight
of head-gear and top-hamper, ready to top
pie over at any moment. To the right a
beautiful vista shows up through another
line of columns a fine pointed obefisk, al
most alike with those of Paris and Lon
DON which il has been my good for
tune to examine on several occasions.
Some views of two wings behind the
Quai of Sphinx has been advantageously
shown up during an inundation of the
Nile-the waters having not yet receded-
appearing as a transparent mirror In the
courtyard.
Another view points to the primitive
manner of disposing of the rubbish in bas-
kets and sacks, conveyed outside on the
heads and shoulders of the hard working
fellahs, who day by day, unearth the sand
deposited by twenty centuries of the storm
drifts from the desert.
These designs Include a faithful repre-
sentation of the manner in which these
workmen have filed in with tons of small
er stones the support TO the leaning col
umn to prevent its ultimate fall and con-
sequent annihilation of the beautiful Sale
which | have made rather fluently to en-
able these interesting ruins to be more
thoroughly understood by the general
reader / translate the original: I'm al
luding TO Thebes, the city of an hundred
gates which, under the auspices of the
kings of the eleventh to the twentieth
Egyptian dynastes, displaying so glori-
ously her palaces and her temples upon
both banks of the Nile, of which now only
aId1,vs fxaA fraKf Tor
wilkinson, enthusiastically asserts they
are the grandest and most extensively
splendid ruins of either ancient or modern
times.
Laid waste by the Perslans during their
invasions under Cambyses, by the Arabs,
by the Christians during the Egyptian con-
quest, as well as by the fellahs with their
native folloWings, broken up and prostrat-
ed from the effects of many earthquakes
and repeated foundations of the Nile these
noted monuments have nevertheless re-
sisted all disasters, and to-day the Sphinx
and the surrounding colonnades unite their
silent voices with each rising sun In praise,
perpetuatlng the grandeur and magnih-
cence of a civilization long forgotten.
One can easily recall to memory, so con-
spicuous in history the impression these
celebrated ruins have made upon tourists,
and those, who In themselves, noted au-
thorities, deem their study wen worthy or
visit 10 Egypt
There are upon the right bank OF the
Nile. Justly celebrated ruins appearing as
two conspicuous groups of stately build
ings or edifces, Karnak and Lougsor; upon
the left bank, GouTnah, the Ramesseum
and Medninet These monuments even
the least important, impress the mind with
a strange awe, while in the presence OF
such surroundings majestic harmony; all
all-silent illusions TO the historic past,
constituting this vast plain, where once
stood Thebes, as It were, a cemetery OF
colossal granite.
We have only TO occupy our attention
to the more important group of these
monuments. those Of Karnak, where dur
ing the past three years considerable ef-
fective work has been accomplished under
the direction of the French savant, NJ
George Legrain, inspector of the Service
Of Egyptian Antiquities. Before entering
into the detail of the technique Of his "a
bors, some explanation appears to us neces-
sary. which we will endeavor to give as
briefly as possible.
The grand temple of Karnak was origin
ally erected IN honor Of Anon, the god of
increase. Turning back 10 It's primitive
origin, it viii be necessary for us to re-
\ fer TO the imaginative or fantastic date