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SCIOPTICON MANUAL. 115 OBELISK AND PROPYLON LUXOR. —Part of the ruins of Thebes shows the arrangements that the Egyptians adopted in their temples. The entrance by a doorway between two immense moles of stonework, termed pylse. The victories of Barneses are sculptured on the face of the pylon; but his colossi, solid figures of granite, which sit on either side of the entrance, have been much de- faced. The lonely obelisk, seen a little in advance to the left, is more perfect than its mate, which now stands in the Place de la Concorde, at Paris. COLOSSAL STATUE REMESES. —The mutilated statue in this view was the largest monolithic figure transported by the Egyptians from the place where it was quarried. Its weight when entire was nearly nine hundred tons, and this statue now lies in enormous fragments around its pedestal. The statue in its sitting position must have been nearly sixty feet in height, and is the largest in the world; one of its toes is a yard in length. The Turks and Arabs have cut several mill-stones out of its head without any apparent diminution of its size. APPROACH TO THE TEMPLE AT KARNAK. —From the entrance of the temple at Luxor to the pylon at Karnak, a distance of a mile and a half, an avenue of colossal sphinxes once existed. The sphinxes have disappeared and an Arab road leads over the site. On reaching the vicinity of Karnak the camel path drops into a broad excavated avenue, lined with- fragments of sphinxes. As you advance the sphinxes are better preserved and remain seated on their pedestals, but they have all been decapitated. Though of colossal proportions, they are seated so close to each other that it must have required nearly two thousand to form the double row to Luxor. The avenue finally reaches a single pylon, of majestic