The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by . Cairo, from the plain arches and grave simplicity of themosque of Tooloon, up to the surpassing elegance of thetombs of the sultans and other monuments. There is one con-sideration which invests them with peculiar interest, namely,that the most beautiful of them are going rapiclly to decay;while a modern and corrupt imitation, entirely without merit,is supplanting the genuine one, retaining merely its leadingarrangements, while all the peculiar distinguishing beautiesare replaced by the most vapid and tasteless mixture of style
The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by . Cairo, from the plain arches and grave simplicity of themosque of Tooloon, up to the surpassing elegance of thetombs of the sultans and other monuments. There is one con-sideration which invests them with peculiar interest, namely,that the most beautiful of them are going rapiclly to decay;while a modern and corrupt imitation, entirely without merit,is supplanting the genuine one, retaining merely its leadingarrangements, while all the peculiar distinguishing beautiesare replaced by the most vapid and tasteless mixture of styles. In a remote part of the town, formerly without the walls, isthe mosque of Tooloon, the most ancient in the city, (alreadyalluded to in the description of the view from the citadel, inwhich it appears,) at present in a very dilapidated and neglectedstate. It stands in an extensive open square, surrounded by MOSQUE OF TOOLOON. 63 cloisters on three sides, consisting of two rows of columns, buton the eastern of five, as appears in the accompanying illustra- v f.
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