many, and tall as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and "the Ammonites" succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

"As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead, even unto this day;

"And the Avims, which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead."

Oh! who can sum up, who can form a conception of the misery, moral, physical, temporal, and eternal, brought into this world by sin, and laid all upon our Saviour, when the birth and death of three nations extirpated for their vices- we know nothing more of them-are summed up in three verses-a mere parenthesis in the Bible such as this!

One word more I forget whether or not

you are a convert to the longer system of chronology, so ably advocated by our friend Dr. Hales, by which we get six hundred additional years before, and seven hundred after the deluge years most welcome to the historical antiquary, who feels himself woefully cramped in his investigations by the common Bible chronology, which makes Noah alive at the time of the great apostacy at Babel, and Shem cotemporary with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! May we not derive another argument for this system from the consideration that, if God bore with the vices of the Canaanites four hundred years before he considered it a righteous thing to destroy them, the Avim, Emim, Zamzummim, Horim, &c., must surely have existed as nations at a period earlier than the received chronology assigns to the deluge? If not, the Avim and Horim, to take these two as examples, must each have become a nation, have forsaken the patriarchal worship, sunk

into all manner of depravity, and been destroyed from the face of the earth, within sixhundred years after the deluge-judging by analogy, a manifest impossibility.

Adieu, dear A

; we start to-morrow for

Upper Egypt.

LETTER V.

Our Dahabieh-Night-Scenes on the Nile - Pyramids of Saccara, Dashour, &c.-The False Pyramid-MiniehStory of Ebn Khasib - Siout - Tombs of Lycopolis

Stabl Antar

Traditions of the Copts - Ruins of Abydus-Palace of Sesostris-Kenneh.

My dear Mother,

December 28, 1836.

I HAVE just been admiring our little bark from the banks of the Nile, as she glided slowly along, her wings spread wooing the breeze, and a blue sky above us,

"So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,

That God alone was to be seen in Heaven!"

You must understand the epithet little as one of endearment, according to Burke's theory of the Beautiful; in truth, she is of ample dimensions,―come, let me describe her to you, premising that we left Siout last night, and are

now in Upper Egypt, the land of Thebes, a rapturous reality, sometimes difficult to convince ourselves of. Two crocodiles have welcomed us already; we have only just entered their territory. No hippopotami are to be seen north of the cataracts; to supply the deficiency we have named our boat "the Hippopotamus," an epithet by no means mal-appropriate to a river-riding bark like our's.

She is of the dahabieh class, the middle size of those employed on the Nile. Our first care, after securing her, was to have her sunk, to destroy the rats and vermin, then to have her painted and repaired; she is now quite clean, and, I hope, will last so a good while. The inner and smaller cabin is just large enough for me; the larger is furnished with a Turkish divan on one side, and William's bed on the other, with a table between and a mat below: the windows are Venetian blinds, and open or shut at pleasure, with chintz curtains drawing