Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . h century. The figures of men and animals, which accom-pany the characters, are partly of the same datewith the original inscriptions ; others appear to beof our own age. They all indicate the infancy ofthe art, if, indeed, there be any thing in them re-sembling that which we call art. In this country thefirst essays and the decline in the art of design seemto coincide without having any stage between Bedouin, while watching his camels, will nowdraw men and animals just as his
Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . h century. The figures of men and animals, which accom-pany the characters, are partly of the same datewith the original inscriptions ; others appear to beof our own age. They all indicate the infancy ofthe art, if, indeed, there be any thing in them re-sembling that which we call art. In this country thefirst essays and the decline in the art of design seemto coincide without having any stage between Bedouin, while watching his camels, will nowdraw men and animals just as his ancestors drewthem in the most remote times. Captain Tuckey,during his voyage on the river Zaire, commonlycalled the Congo, found below Lombe modern Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. ii. part vi. 1832. DESIGNS. 253 sculptures on the rocks resembling the earliest ofthe characters seen in the peninsula of Sinai. My view of Wady Mokatteb is the first that hasbeen made of it: it is taken from the south-east;the caravan which is seen in the distance is ap-proaching from Suez by Wady Taibe and VnY MOKATTFK Ascending by the course of Wady Mokatteb weentered a framework of rocks : a wady whichdischarges its waters there is called Magara. Thisvalley, of which I have spoken before, when de-scribing Sarbout el Cadem, has been worked, aswell as the mountain, for the purpose of extracting 254 MARA OF SCRIPTURE. from it the copper found in the freestone large subterraneous series of pillars formed in therock, and now incumbered by the rushing in of therains, and of the sand which has there found refuge,still exhibits traces of the labours formerly prose-cuted in that direction. The objects which would be here most interest-ing, if the origin of the establishment were oncemade out, would be the large hieroglyphic tabletswhich the workmen, either for amusement, or torecord the death of their superintendents, in someremarkable events, have wrought in strong relief onthe
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