. The Saturday magazine . phics and inscrip-tions lelating to Rhamses. There is another small exca-vated temple on the opposite side of the river, which hassersed as a chapel to the Christian Greeks ; and figures ofthe Apostles, still nearly perfect, are painted on its wallsand SCUI-niRES IV THE TEMPLE AT IBSAMBAL. There does not appear to be any excavated Temple inEgypt, or none at least which can be distinctly recognisedas such: this difierence between the two countries, eitherarose from difierences in the religions of the first inha-bitants of each, or probably the excavations in Nub
. The Saturday magazine . phics and inscrip-tions lelating to Rhamses. There is another small exca-vated temple on the opposite side of the river, which hassersed as a chapel to the Christian Greeks ; and figures ofthe Apostles, still nearly perfect, are painted on its wallsand SCUI-niRES IV THE TEMPLE AT IBSAMBAL. There does not appear to be any excavated Temple inEgypt, or none at least which can be distinctly recognisedas such: this difierence between the two countries, eitherarose from difierences in the religions of the first inha-bitants of each, or probably the excavations in Nubia beinglarger, have received the name of temples though theywere only tombs, analogous to those at El-kab mentionedin another place, with which they appear from the descrip-tions, to have agreed in their interior arrangements. CATACOMBS OF THEBES, &c. Every traveller who visits Egy^pt, gives some descriptionof these places; it is difficult, among so many and suchvarious accounts, to select that which will be most accept-able ; but, on consideration, we prefer that of the late Belzonias most interesting. Goumou is a tract of-^ocks about two miles in length,at the foot of the Lybian mountains «n the west ofThebes, and was the burial-place of the great city of thehundred ga
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