Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-09-16
A Lexingtonian's Wanderings ia
Old World

| EDITOR GAZETTE: With this lette
: | conclude my observations on my re
. cent trip to the old World:
t To give the reader a more defnIt
Q idea OF the size of the Great Pyramid
. and the quantity Of stone contained il
, this structure: The base covers 1:
J acres Of ground;there Is sufficient stone
! In this one Pyramid to build wal
} around the State OF Virginia three feet
: high and one foot thick. Zach side al
the base Is as long as two aud one hall
squares In the town OF Lexington and
the height is just four times as high as
the spire OF the Lexington Presbyter-
ian church. Now il you can picture
that in your mind you have the Great
Pyramid Of Ghizeh before you.
Now a short history OF few OF the
most important mosques OF Cairo and |
am finished. These places OF worship
are the most interesting have ever
been In and were 1t in my power
would like to describe the interior in
way that the reader could fully under
stand, but l cannot. The most ancient
mosque In Cairo is that Of Ahmed Eba
Tooloon. 1t was built century before
Cairo was and 1t stood outside the city
till Sadalin included 1t within its walls.
Its construction took three years and |
cost $4,000 pounds or 100000. This
mosque stands on the spot which ira
dillon asserts 10 the hill on which
Nosh's Ark rested after the great food,
The building Of the famous Mosque
OF Mahommed Ally situated in the GEN.
tire OF the citadel was started in 1924 in
reign OF Mohammed Ally the founder OF
the present dynasty and was complet-
I'd during the reign of Said Pacha In
1857. 1t was designed by clever
3reeA architect who took his model
rom the great church of st. Sophia at
)onstantinople. The columns and
acing Of the walls are made of the 9
urest alabaster marble from the quar- {
les OF BENZ Suef. When about two
birds completed the workmen found
he quaries exhausted and to finish the @
7onderful structure the marble was Q
lken from the second Pyramid and re-
uired almost the entire amount to g.
omplete the mosque. In the richly L
ecorated interior at the south west
1gle is the tomb Of Mohammed Ally. 3.
d. ID. 1S49. The Mosque Of Sultan O
asan dating from 1867 is perhaps the N,
nest In the city. The architecture in
10 form OF a giant cross is graceful az
I'd elegant and the decorations G.
peib. 1t is asserted that the archi-
cts bands were cut off blythe Sultan's tv
mmand to prevent bis designing a 40
plicate Of the building elsewhere. r,
the tomb Of the founder Is a large 90
py OF the Koran. Te
No one is allowed to enter any OF
csc mosques with their shoes on,
ldals are furnished visitors at the
frances. l cannot write you of any Pil
lei particular places of interest for i EnI
time was so limited / am really sur Lii
sed to know that saw so much as col
!. The balance OF my stay In Cairo bill
spent on the streets visiting the W.
BPS aud pleasure resorts, here, there Il
about. cas-
crossed the Nile twice by boat and the
ID on the bank at the spot where ha
ses was found by Pharo's daughter meI
CHI Is directly at the base OF the
pile OF Pharo now unoccupied and is Qui
wed to remain only as a monument F
smind one Of days and years gone, diaI
or to return. No wonder that the a "Ei
Arab proverb holds good, viz: "He
has once tasted Of Nile water longs o.
it evermore. A sunset on the ing
ks of the Nile in upper Egypt is a ter
t ever to be remembered, to a
ow, dear reader, have finished my
story. II what have written is ID
sing or instructive, all Is well. | u nars
e, l saw, l ain satisfied. othe
cave Egypt by steamer. Three use
half days am in Naples once rms
q. Then by steamer "Carpathia" cont cont
Ird Line l start for the United drug
IS, the land OF the free and home any
brave, where the stars and stripes Drug
never trailed in defeat. IT,