The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-03
Nuba in 1907-A Trip Through Clnh on Solan Gov Steamer

the steamer for wady Halfa, Is lust
Hi hp ste the Island Of Philae. and dur
ttn ogg,s my nho stay there ! rowed over and
PIE as they have be NJ more or less
affected a by the backing up Of the wa
Yer from re- the h Assouan dam Now that
higher, thu. most Of tn temples viii
be drowned when the reservoir ls fnll,
ana, the probability Is that they Will
s sroi pass away. When the. dam was
from IRON. the aavants and psychologists OF
t te world on account OF thp injury
1 :, T. would do to philae. but the
BILE to Egypt that the dam Is to DO
raised regardless Of the preservation
q thes, ancient ruins. Something like
old structures anripg the building Of
the dam. and 1T is probable that twice
iiiis amount would suffice to take UP
ene temples ,l which are now there and
transport them to Cairo, where all the
world might gee
~, The Z, Island Of Philae is situated on
OF the Nile. Just above the first
cataract. and, it 4. reached by. ferry
o od th from shgla a Or from Ass3uan
Z feet long and 200 feet wide: Il is al
most covered temples built BY tho
lPtolemies and liners two or three CEN
goddess. isis; H BUT 's,ris. HatSa NOS IND sni
the god ,nn.9 Ct the catnsae.s wern also
1 Emperors the temples ware Ns rn' 'sGsai
but when Egypt was converted to
Christianity, the hermits and other
took os fbsf Yay heS S . npsa
some of the temples into Christian
churches and their mutilatlons Of the
Of the gods Of Old Egypt can be be plain plain
| ly seen.
The ruins to-day are well worth
forest CT columns about them mi the
Kiosk, which Is known as Pharaoil's
bed is one of the most beautiful of the
Which Phila eP IS built are ss Of great
size.
They probably came from the As
the grante rocks in the a desert ne abona
\ That r g,on Is almoyt all granite.
rode for about thirty miles on donkey
back over It. making my way through
ers. worn smooth by the standstorms
i or thousands of years. The rocks are
2 OF all shapes and are SO piled up. one
on another. as to max or> think that
4 the gods had used them as building
!. material. Here one stands high over
those surrounding It ms though on a
pedes tai: there others are massed like
Notifications, and again thy rise In
towers.
In Assouan 0unrries.
i During my stay there visited the
!, Assouan qunrries, the great stone yards
:. from which the obelisks were taken
land from which scame thu mighty
, statues of Rameses and the stone
!, blocks of the greatest of the Theban
!, temples. The quarries to-day are much
the SAM as they were when the Esyp-
tians left them two or three thousand
!. years ago. One can see the marks Of
J. their wedges on the rocks and the
!. markings OF the old stone-cutttrs are
tplain. In one place there Is an obelisk
: half finished lying on It's side. Just as
!. the rnasons OF the Pharoahs left 1t ages
:, ago. When the stones wer, gotten out
i for the Assouan dam the italian work
r men used many of the blocks which
e the ancient Egyptian mechanics had
/ begun to cut; and Indeed that great
1 granite structure was made in partner
ship by two sets of mechanics who
( iwere born thousands of years apart.