Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts . form and colour, and the last gleamof sunlight revealed, some twenty miles away, thethin line of the sea, and above it the statelymountains of Sinai. A moment later the visionhad passed, the sun had set, and in the gatheringdarkness the baggage camels, lumbering round abend, came into sight, calling our attention tomore material things. In the semi-darkness, while our meal was beingprepared, we visited a Roman station which standsin the Wady Bileh at the foot of the GebelDukhan mountains, about three and a quarterhours trot from the fortress of Wady Gata
Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts . form and colour, and the last gleamof sunlight revealed, some twenty miles away, thethin line of the sea, and above it the statelymountains of Sinai. A moment later the visionhad passed, the sun had set, and in the gatheringdarkness the baggage camels, lumbering round abend, came into sight, calling our attention tomore material things. In the semi-darkness, while our meal was beingprepared, we visited a Roman station which standsin the Wady Bileh at the foot of the GebelDukhan mountains, about three and a quarterhours trot from the fortress of Wady Gatar. Theporphyry quarries and the settlement lay in thevalley at the other side of the range of hills at thefoot of which we were now standing ; and to reachthem one might either climb by an ancient pathover a pass in the range, or one might ride roundby the tortuous valley—a journey said to be ofnearly thirty miles. This station was thus thefirst nights halting-place for express caravansreturning from the quarries. At one side of the.
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