Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . the heightof the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nestas high as the eagle, I will bring thee down fromthence, said the Lord. The excavations in the rocks and the characterof the sepulchral monuments of Petra are calcu-lated to excite a good deal of attention. Examplesof similar constructions are to be found, however,in other countries. India and Egypt exhibit manytemples and tombs of great extent wrought in agraceful and magnificent manner. Asia Minor,Syria, Cyrene, Greece, and the
Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . the heightof the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nestas high as the eagle, I will bring thee down fromthence, said the Lord. The excavations in the rocks and the characterof the sepulchral monuments of Petra are calcu-lated to excite a good deal of attention. Examplesof similar constructions are to be found, however,in other countries. India and Egypt exhibit manytemples and tombs of great extent wrought in agraceful and magnificent manner. Asia Minor,Syria, Cyrene, Greece, and the whole of theancient world, furnish various combinations ofworks of this description ; we may even find them MONUMENTS, 151 amongst modern communities who have no ideaof the fine arts. A hollow in a rock becomestheir earliest abode: some external ornament markstheir first step towards the attainment of style. But the monuments of Petra are now before us,and, perhaps, the best commentary upon them willbe a succinct description of the principal objectswhich will be found represented in the plates. l 4 152. ISOLATED COLUMN. CHAPTER X. PLAN OF PETRA. TOMB IN TWO STYLES.— ISOLATED COLUMN. TOMB LEFT UNFINISHED.— RUINS OF A TEMPLE. MONU-MENTAL RESIDENCE. RIVER OF PETRA. TRIUMPHAL ARCH. COLOSSAL TEMPLE. A THEATRE. DEFILE OF PETRA. GREEK INSCRIPTION. — THE KHASNE. TREA-SURY OF PHARAOH. INTERIOR OF THE KHASNE. VIEW OF THE ARCH FROM THE RAVINE. Ihe reader should place before him the map ofPetra, in order that he might the more clearlycomprehend the mode in which we spent our timethere. We arrived from the south, and descended
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