. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 286 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [August,. COLOSSUS OF SESOSTRIS. During the period of their dominion in Egypt, the French erected a bridge across the Nile, uniting Old Cairo with the Isle of Rhoda Of that structure no other vestige now remains than a fragment of the first arch attached to the old stonework of the Nilometer. On the other bank of the river stands the citv of Gizeh, about two leagues from the pyramids, and which formed the northern boundary of an
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 286 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [August,. COLOSSUS OF SESOSTRIS. During the period of their dominion in Egypt, the French erected a bridge across the Nile, uniting Old Cairo with the Isle of Rhoda Of that structure no other vestige now remains than a fragment of the first arch attached to the old stonework of the Nilometer. On the other bank of the river stands the citv of Gizeh, about two leagues from the pyramids, and which formed the northern boundary of ancient Memphis, whose southern limit and necropolis were what is now Sakara. The road along the course of the river leads to Bedrechein, beyond which village the former site of some large city is attested by the massive blocks of granite and fragments of columns that strew the plain. Pieces of shattered stone project every where through the sands that have already b\n-ied up the principal monuments of that im- mense city, and which ere long will completely obliterate all remaining traces of it. Between Bedrechein and the village of Mit Rahineh rise two long hills parallel to each other, which are probably formed by the remains of a vast enclosure of unburnt bricks, similar to those that have been found in many other ruins. These bricks, which are thirty three centemetres (about thirteen inches) long, by eighteen wide and ten deep, are for the most part stamped with a hieroglyphic cartouch. Within this enclosure is the magnificent colossus exhumated by Captain Caviglia, to whom the world is indebted for several other discoveries no less important. This gigantic statue is one of the finest pieces of Egyptian art; it is of a very fine limestone, and although incrusted in parts, still retains that polish which is met with only in sculptures of the same epoch. Notwithstanding that the lower parts of the legs are broken off, the present length of the figure is not less than eleven and
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