The Seven wonders of the world, with their associations in art and history . ving all the informationhere gathered respecting these mightiest of the worksof man. From the records of the grandeur and wealth of thecities and palaces here noticed, we may turn to theaccounts of the barbarous hordes who, from the North,were permitted by Divine Providence to ravage anddestroy all these works of the most civilized countries;and, like some sad pestilence sent on earth as a punish-ment and a warning for their crimes, these scourgesof God, as they have been justly termed, everywheremarked their progress
The Seven wonders of the world, with their associations in art and history . ving all the informationhere gathered respecting these mightiest of the worksof man. From the records of the grandeur and wealth of thecities and palaces here noticed, we may turn to theaccounts of the barbarous hordes who, from the North,were permitted by Divine Providence to ravage anddestroy all these works of the most civilized countries;and, like some sad pestilence sent on earth as a punish-ment and a warning for their crimes, these scourgesof God, as they have been justly termed, everywheremarked their progress by ruin and desolation; and thesites of populous cities are now only recognised byblackened ruins and solitary columns. We may at the same time reflect, with pious awe,on the inscrutable ways of the Most High, who haththus permitted for a time unlimited conquest and powerbeyond human control; and then, when their crimes andtheir pride were at the highest pit-^h, has humbled thehaughtiest nations by the arm of cruel ])arbarians, andcut them off from the face of the PYRAMIDS. THE PYEAMIDS OF EGYPT Those mighty piles—tlie Pyramids—have over-lived The feeble generations of though unmoved they bore the deluge weight, Survivors of the ruind world ?What though their founder fiUd with miracles And wealth miraculous, their ample vaults ? The eternal Pyramids—the mystery of tlie past—^the enigma of the present — and the still enduring,wonder for future ages of this world,—standing at thehead of a long reach in the Kiver Nile, directly infront of the traveller, and seeming to darken the horizon,solitary, grand, and gloomy, the only objects to be seenin the mighty desert before him, are the more impres-sive as being the chief aim and end of an antiquarianjourney to the land in which the forefathers of Israelsubmitted to a bondage, the harshness of which wasonly surpassed by the marvellous agency that wroughtout their deliverance, and left a history of Gods
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