. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. and are nearing thefirst cataract. At Edfou is perhaps the best preservedtemple in Egypt. In 1864 it was excavated by MarietteBey. Prior to that time it was hidden beneath the sandand an Arab village stood above its walls and sanctuary. The temple at Edfou was begun under the reign ofPtolemy Euergetes I, B. C. 237, and was completed B. Thus one hundred and eighty years were spent in theconstruction of this magnificent structure. Our engravingshows the pylon in front, th
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. and are nearing thefirst cataract. At Edfou is perhaps the best preservedtemple in Egypt. In 1864 it was excavated by MarietteBey. Prior to that time it was hidden beneath the sandand an Arab village stood above its walls and sanctuary. The temple at Edfou was begun under the reign ofPtolemy Euergetes I, B. C. 237, and was completed B. Thus one hundred and eighty years were spent in theconstruction of this magnificent structure. Our engravingshows the pylon in front, the open court in the center andthe covered chambers and sanctuary in the rear. Thespace enclosed by the walls measures four hundred andfifty by one hundred and twenty feet. Very early in the morning of our twelfth day on theNile we leave Edfou and, passing Silsilis, where are thetablets referring to the reign of Menephthah II, to whichwe called attention in a preceding chapter, and Kom Om-bo, where there is a temple dedicated to the crocodile godof ancient Egypt, we proceed at once to Assuan, at thefirst cataract,. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 2JI Before reaching the first cataract the scenery along theNile changes. The country is more hilly and rolling, and instead of flat, monotonous banks of sand and mud, wehave masses of rock broken up into grotesque and fantasticforms. Groves of palm, mimosa, and castor-oil plant comedown to the waters edge. The limestone and sandstoneranges which we find in the Nile valley from Cairo to Silsilis,here give place to granite, porphyry and basalt. The islandsin the stream are no longer shifting accretions of mud alter-nately formed and dissolved by the force of the current,but rocks and boulders of granite, which rise high abovethe river and resist its utmost force. The water rushesand foams about the base of these granite formations andwith a rapid descent forms what is known as the first cata-ract. It is in no sense of the word a waterfall, bu
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