. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fig.,. Al ,. !• ];!. TEMILK AT l)eriod, with an avenue of sphinxes, the adytum rock-cut, the rest built. At Ainada(. No 34. ), a temple of Thothmes III.; and nearly opjxisite, on the east bank, is Dayr. thecapital of Nubia, where is a rock-cut temple, of the date of Ramcscs H. At Aboo Simbel Chap. II. CHINESE. 43 or Ipsambool (No. 35.) two fine temples {fiys. 70. and 71.) cut in the rock, of the timeof Ramtscs II.

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. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fig.,. Al ,. !• ];!. TEMILK AT l)eriod, with an avenue of sphinxes, the adytum rock-cut, the rest built. At Ainada(. No 34. ), a temple of Thothmes III.; and nearly opjxisite, on the east bank, is Dayr. thecapital of Nubia, where is a rock-cut temple, of the date of Ramcscs H. At Aboo Simbel Chap. II. CHINESE. 43 or Ipsambool (No. 35.) two fine temples {fiys. 70. and 71.) cut in the rock, of the timeof Ramtscs II., and tho finest out of tlie Thebis. Above tlie lust named place there areno buildings of importance mentioned by our author. Sect. VIII. CIIINtSE AUCHITECTUKE. 93. In the first chapter, thL re ider will remember, we have said that in the tent is tc befound the type of this architecture; and one wliich, M. de Faiivv justly observed, cannothe mistaken. We are not aware of the utility of a very minute investigation of its style,which in this country is of no importance, the decoration of JIarden^ with imitations of itsproductions being no L

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