Sphinx, a talisman-Heliopolis-The Pyramids pro- Our Dahabieh-Night-Scenes on the Nile - Pyramids of Saccara, Dashour, &c.-The False Pyramid-Minieh— ERRATA. VOLUME I. Page 148, line 14, after together, insert a comma. Page 277, last line but one, between Egyptians and all, insert a dash. Page 315, line 12, dele dash after looking. Page 373, line 19 (from the bottom), read “ lacrymas hic maesta profudi," &c. Page 373, line 8 (from the bottom), for paying, read paging. Page 404, line 14 (from the bottom), for 1341, read 1346. VOLUME II. Page 118, line 11, read " strength he had heard so highly vaunted," &c. Page 170, line 5 (from the bottom,) for Grecian, read Syrian. Page 171, Line 14, dele" of which adjoin for adjoined. Page 173, line 7, dele the. Page 360, transpose lines 25 and 26. standing," and read LETTERS ON EGYPT. “ All were but Babel vanities! Time sadly overcometh all things, and is now dominant, and sitteth on a Sphinx, and looketh upon Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister, Oblivion, reclineth demi-somnous on a Pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, Who builded them? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. "Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hath vanished as a phantasma. Her youthful days are over, and her face hath become wrinkled and tetrick. She poreth not upon the heavens; Astronomy is dead unto her, and Knowledge maketh other cycles. Canopus is afar off, Memnon resoundeth not to the Sun, and Nilus heareth strange voices. Her monuments are but hieroglyphically sempiternal. Osiris and Anubis, her averruncous deities, have departed, while Orus yet remains, dimly shadowing the principle of vicissitude and the effluxion of things, but receiveth little oblation." SIR THOMAS BROWNE. VOL. I. B |