Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . ar (120/2 M.) Kalyub these stupendousstructures become distinctly visible. About 3 M. to the W. ofthis point is the Barrage du Nil (p. 408), to which a disusedbranch-line diverges. Railway to Zakazik, Ismailiya, and Suez,see R. 5. The Libyan chain becomes more distinctly visible, andwe also observe the Mokattam range with the citadel, and the mosqueof Mohammed Ali with its slender minarets. The scenery now 15* 228 Route 2. becomes more pleasing. The fields are enlivened with numerou
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . ar (120/2 M.) Kalyub these stupendousstructures become distinctly visible. About 3 M. to the W. ofthis point is the Barrage du Nil (p. 408), to which a disusedbranch-line diverges. Railway to Zakazik, Ismailiya, and Suez,see R. 5. The Libyan chain becomes more distinctly visible, andwe also observe the Mokattam range with the citadel, and the mosqueof Mohammed Ali with its slender minarets. The scenery now 15* 228 Route 2. becomes more pleasing. The fields are enlivened with numeroustrees, and gardens and villas come in sight. To the left lie thesite of the ruins of Heliopolis (the obelisk of which is not seen fromthe. railway), and the garden of Matariyeh with its sycamores, andthe large chateau of fAbbasiyeh, while on the right we perceivethe beautiful avenue leading to Shubra (p. 330). The environs ofthe city become more and more prominent, and about 50 leaving Benha the train enters the station of ( 128 M. I Cairo. 44n, ij ~? f * i • 7. ; ; .isBxu-><i?a. ooczin(V^IHVMlria HSVM) VH) TOUS
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