Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . rom the terraces of the gates. The casemates and towers still hearFrench names cut in the hastion walls. On payment of a smallbakshish, the visitor may ascend the Bah en-Nasr and the city-wall, and walk along the top of the latter to the Bah gates, the most important of the sixty which once existedin the walls of Cairo, weTe erected hy the vizier Berd Gamali inthe 11th century. The Bah en-Nasr in particular is huilt of well-hewn stone, and has vaulted winding staircases in the
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . rom the terraces of the gates. The casemates and towers still hearFrench names cut in the hastion walls. On payment of a smallbakshish, the visitor may ascend the Bah en-Nasr and the city-wall, and walk along the top of the latter to the Bah gates, the most important of the sixty which once existedin the walls of Cairo, weTe erected hy the vizier Berd Gamali inthe 11th century. The Bah en-Nasr in particular is huilt of well-hewn stone, and has vaulted winding staircases in the interior,groined vaulting in the gateway, girders with a kind of hatchedmoulding, and cornices with a corheled frieze. Over the entranceare a slah with a Curie inscription, and decorative shields. Theprincipal entrance of the Bah el-Futuh is flanked with semicir-cular towers, and that of the Bah en-Nasr with square towers. Thespaces hetween the inner and outer gates are vaulted. We leave the Bah en-Nasr and turn to the right, crossing aMohammedan hurial-ground, on the left sideof which, onfa small. BAti en-Nam: Bah el-Futuh.(From the side next the town.) eminence not far from the road, is interred J. L. Burckhardt(d. 1817), the distinguished Oriental traveller, whose works arestill of high authority. Before leaving the city-wall to the right, we ohserve on theleft two towers with iron hasins, heing the reservoirs of the Water-works supplying the palace of the Khedive in the rAbbasiyeh andthe Citadel. In front of these, hut less visible, are the five largefilters for purifying the town supply. The water is pumped into these iilters by engines of 150-horse power,situated in the Ismailiya quarter, on the canal of that name. A smallerpump adjoining the filters is used for providing the Citadel with water. Thefirst temporary pumping machinery, erected in 1865-66, at Kasr el-cAin,was employed in filling the basins in the desert, and also in supplying asmall part of the city. The dist
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