Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 . I i -r2 40/ict (/>r//.i/r s// - - /////// >. THE SOURCE OF THE NIXE. t$t There are likewife pedeflals, whereon the figures pf theSphinx have been placed. Two magnificent flights of fleps,feveral hundred feet long, all of granite, exceedingly well-fafhioned, and Mill in their places, are the only remains ofa magnificent temple. In the angle of this platform wherethat temple flood, is the prefent fmall church of Axum, inthe place of a former one deflroyed by Mahomet Gragne,in the reign of king
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 . I i -r2 40/ict (/>r//.i/r s// - - /////// >. THE SOURCE OF THE NIXE. t$t There are likewife pedeflals, whereon the figures pf theSphinx have been placed. Two magnificent flights of fleps,feveral hundred feet long, all of granite, exceedingly well-fafhioned, and Mill in their places, are the only remains ofa magnificent temple. In the angle of this platform wherethat temple flood, is the prefent fmall church of Axum, inthe place of a former one deflroyed by Mahomet Gragne,in the reign of king David III. ; and which was probablyremains of a temple built by Ptolemy Evergetes, if not thework of times more remote. The church is a mean, fmall building, very ill kept, andfull of pigeons dung. In it are fuppofed to be preferved theark of the covenant, and copy of the law which Menilek fonof Solomon is faid, in their fabulous legends, to have ftolenfrom his father Solomon in his return to Ethiopia, and thefewere reckoned as it were the palladia of this ancient copy of the Ol
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