April, 1879.
THE WEST SHORE.
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been winding through the streets and washing of iu head-waters during the 1 bearing trees planted where mice dread
avenues of dead cities, once renowned lapse of many centuries. Hut wc arc desolation reigned supreme, and water,
for their schools of philosophy and I exceeding our limits; a few reflections J the Bedouin's "gift of Uod," was
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mosaics which challenge the approach
of modern skill, and elegant forms of
architecture whose fragments alone
constitute the finest models of the world I dition of Egypt
to-day. Yea, like curious visitors
from a new-created icalm, we have
been invading the solemn stillness
of dead cities once resonant with
thousands of happy voices now
hushed forever, and radiant with
Hashing eyes long since closed in
the dreamless sleep that knows no
waking.
It has hcen ingeniously and con
clusively shown by geologists that
the accretions of soil left by the
waters of the Nile, in lower Kgypt,
dining the annual inundations,
amount to a little more than a foot
in a bundled years. Hence, assum
ing that the final subjugation of
Egypt and the overthrow of the
l'haraonic dynasty took place twelve
hundred years before the Christian
era, it would seem that an accumula
tion of at least thirty feet of deposi
ted soil now covers the ancient val
ley of the Nile. Consequently, many
arclifflologihU and learned travelers
have concluded that by far the great
er, and perhaps richer portion of
Egyptian ruins proper, still lie bu
ried under this soil-growth of ages.
Tht stratum of precipitated sedi
ment rapidly decreases in depth, of
course, as we ascend the river, and
at a moderate distance up the valley,
it would probably not exceed :i foot
in thickness. Much lighl might
doubtless be thrown upon early Jew
ish history by an organicd effort In
ward discovering and exhuming the
remains of ancient handiwork in
this, the ri.lu-l field lor archaeolog
ical research in the whole of the Nile
country. The majority of modem
travelers agieu that the most fitiit
ful results of n systematic excavation
would be had at or near the little
village of Afaturea, now generally
considered to lie the true site of the
magnificent Temple of the Sun, so
glowingly descrilied by early writers.
This village, which consists only of a
few miserable Arab huts, is situated im
mediately upon the bank of the Nile, a
mile or so mIkvc the sculptured pillar
ulrcady dcscrilicd. The material to be
removed would lie nothing more than
the accumulated accretions brought
down by the river from the hillside
land of the world's childhood, and we
must close. The Sue canal is working
skins transported by the hardy camel.
e believe it is yet in the power ol the
wonders in the political and social con- religion and science of the enlightened
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I he rinlc -.on 01 uie worm to reoeem ims kuickcu lauo
from the curse of Mohammedan su
perstition, and bring it back a long
way towards its former paradisiacal
loveliness.
Once the acknowledged granary
of the world, its annually inundated
bottom lands aie yet capable of be
ing reclaimed and made subservient
to the comfort ami luxury of a dense
population of intelligent people.
The artificial planting of fruit and
forest trees throughout the whole
extent of the valle) of the Nile is
clearly a possibility, and, we hclicu ,
the setpiel would show it to lie a
glorioDI MICCMti od giant that the
prctenl Kntafy may sec this grand
and noble enterprise hniicfully In
augurated. Oiiikni.
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