. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. d from bel-hit, the watchful. We shall die, and Islam shall wither away, and still thatsleepless rock will be watching and watching the works ofa new, busy race with the same sad, earnest eyes and thesame sad, earnest mien everlastingly. You dare not mockthe Sphinx. A few steps southeast of the Sphinx is a granite tem-ple, discovered by M. Mariette in 1853. The chambers are *A. B. Edwards. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 139 kept free from sand and are easy of access. The material
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. d from bel-hit, the watchful. We shall die, and Islam shall wither away, and still thatsleepless rock will be watching and watching the works ofa new, busy race with the same sad, earnest eyes and thesame sad, earnest mien everlastingly. You dare not mockthe Sphinx. A few steps southeast of the Sphinx is a granite tem-ple, discovered by M. Mariette in 1853. The chambers are *A. B. Edwards. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 139 kept free from sand and are easy of access. The materialis alabaster and the red granite from Assuan. The archi-tecture is simple in style. The skill of the stone-cutterand mason is fully equal to that displayed in the GrandGallery and Kings Chamber of the pyramid. The greatmasses of granite are shaped with exquisite skill, and thelapse of ages has not moved them a hairbreadth fromwhere the masons laid them. We spent but two days atthe Pyramids and the Sphinx, only time enough to becomefully impressed with the magnitude ana grandeur of thesevast monuments of The Granite Temple, the Sphinx and the Great Pyramidfrom the Southeast.
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