The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
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, have seen it where it begins near Assiout and it looks like wide and deep river.
 In ancient times a great lake formed a part of the Fayoum. It was 450 miles around and in place was 300 feet deep. It was used as a reservoir to supply the Delta with water, in times of low Nile and a canal 300 feet wide connected it with the Nile river. This was the Lake Moeris mentioned by Herodotus and also by the geographer Strabo. That lal-S has now almost disappeared, and it's bed is covered by some of the richest farms in the world The only part of 1t which remains is Lake Karun, 35 miles long and six miles wde which lies at the north western edge of the depression at the foot of the Libyan hills. A great part of the land about the lake is desert, and it's banks are covered with reeds and tama- risk shrubs. It's water is slightly brack- ish but the people drink it. It contains fish and the right to fish in 1t is let out by the government to one man, who al- lows the men living on the banks to ply their trade, and in return receives one half the catch.
 Some of the best fruits and most beau ti1ul flowers of Egypt. come from the Fayoum. A railroad has been built into it. which connects with the main Egyp- tian system, and one can go from Cairo to Medinet it's capital, in four hours. There are two trains each way every day and there Is considerable travel from one place to the other. At Mednet there are branch railroads which reach every part of the oasis, and there is a system of tramways which includes number Of villages.
 The Labyrinth.
 The Flayoum is not often visited by A. trf nf the most wonderful ruins of ancient Egypt. There is pyramid about five miles from Medinet, in which a mummy of an ancient king was recently found, and there are some traces left of the Labyrinth described by Strabo and other travellers. The Labyrinth is said to have been quite as wonderful as the pyramids. It was situated on the banks of Lake Moers and was 8 vast palace which had 9OOo rooms, half of which were above ground and half below The build ings composing the palace were connected by long covered passages which inter seeted each other and wound about so that stranger could not go through them without a guide Strabo says that the ceilings of every room consisted of but a single stone. and that the passages were covered with slabs of extraordinary size Herodotus who went through the rooms above ground. says that the Struc- ture was more wonderful than the pyra- mids and that the windings through the courts presented q thousand occasions of wonder as he passed through. Just who built this structure no one knows; but it is supposed to have been made as q temple and a tomb by one of the Egyp- tian kings, who lived more than thou sand years after Cheops built the great pyramid.
 How Egypt Governs Sinai.
 The Peninsula of Sinai, in whicu the children of Israel wandered for 40 years after they came out of the Nile valley, now belongs to the Egyptians and is gov erned by them. The country is visited by traveleas by means of camels and Bedohin guides. and it is possible to go up the mountains where Moses saw the Lord in a burning bush, and where he received the Ten Commandments en- graved on blocks of stone, while the Israelites were worshiping the golden calf in the foothills.
 The peninsula of Sinai is one of the most mountainous deserts of the world It has no tilable soil. but it is said to be well mineralized, and to have deposits of copper which were worked as far back as 3700 E. c. These deposits are now being again prospected, = and a concession for mining them has been given to one of the