The innocents abroad; . > ---IgfeaiBag-. KILOMETER. DISTANT VIEW OF THE PYRAMIDS. 621 took from tliem all suggestions of unfeeling stone, and madethem seem only the airy nothings of a dream—structureswhich might blossom into tiers of vague arches, or ornate col-onnades, maybe, and change and change again, into all grace-ful forms of architecture, while we looked, and then melt deli-ciously away and blend with the tremulous atmosphere. At the end of the levee we left the mules and went in a sail-boat across an arm of the I^ile or an overflow, and landedwhere the sands of the Great Sahara lef
The innocents abroad; . > ---IgfeaiBag-. KILOMETER. DISTANT VIEW OF THE PYRAMIDS. 621 took from tliem all suggestions of unfeeling stone, and madethem seem only the airy nothings of a dream—structureswhich might blossom into tiers of vague arches, or ornate col-onnades, maybe, and change and change again, into all grace-ful forms of architecture, while we looked, and then melt deli-ciously away and blend with the tremulous atmosphere. At the end of the levee we left the mules and went in a sail-boat across an arm of the I^ile or an overflow, and landedwhere the sands of the Great Sahara left their embankment,as straight as a wall, along the verge of the alluvial plain ofthe river. A laborious walk in the flaming sun brought us tothe foot of the great Pyramid of Cheops. It was a fairy visionno longer. It was a corrugated, unsightly mountain of of its monstrous sides was a wide stairway which roseupward, step above step, narrowing as it went, till it taperedto a point far aloft in the air. Insect men and women—p
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