The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by . the red being intended to express the Egyptians; the next, abearded northern people, with whom they were often at war,to testify the north; as do the blacks, the regions of thesouth; and the other white people in costume the orientalnations. An adjacent chamber, the paintings of which are unfinished,supported by two pillars, affords an opportunity of seeing thefigures sketched on, before wrought out by the labour of thechisel, and elaborately painted : these outlines are very bold andmasterly. We now proceed deeper into the rec
The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by . the red being intended to express the Egyptians; the next, abearded northern people, with whom they were often at war,to testify the north; as do the blacks, the regions of thesouth; and the other white people in costume the orientalnations. An adjacent chamber, the paintings of which are unfinished,supported by two pillars, affords an opportunity of seeing thefigures sketched on, before wrought out by the labour of thechisel, and elaborately painted : these outlines are very bold andmasterly. We now proceed deeper into the recesses of the se-pulchre, the chambers of which are not in a line, as is usually thecase ; a staircase at the nearest end of the inner wall conductsto two passages, and another chamber, into the great hall, whichis rather larger than the one first entered, and having six pillarsinstead of four, with two lateral apartments, and at the extremityan oblong covered saloon, in the midst of which, on the summitof an inclined plane and staircases, extending deep into the. DOCTRINE OF THK JUDGMENT. 1G5 rock, and part of Avhich is filled up with fallen earth, stood,?when Belzoni entered, the celebrated sarcophagus, which heldthe body of the monarch, now in the museum of Sir J. with this hall are other small chambers, in one ofwhich arc sculptures which startle the uninitiated, appearingto some to cast the reproach of human sacrifice upon the Egyp-tian religion, though these are believed by antiquaries to havean emblematic signification, as have most of the other sculptures,relating to the future passage of the soul through differentstages of existence. The entire extent of this astonishing succession of chambersand passages is hollowed to a length of 820 feet into the heartof the rock, and they are every where covered with the samesubjects, a large proportion of which are of mythological sig-nification, only to be unfolded, if ever, by the long and per-severing scrutiny of
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