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 idols of Japan and India. The conception is a grand one, and well calculated to inspire with terror the weak minds of its worshipers.

As we ride back to Cairo we turn back to gaze upon these marvelous structures, and are lost in amazement at the immense amount of labor expended for no practical utility. If their sole object was to perpetuate the names of the buildersPharaohs, Kings and Priestswhatever their titles may have been, how futile the attempt at immortality, for the names of the builders have in most cases passed away.

Proud monuments of kings, whose very names Have [sic] perished from the records of the past. W. P. F.