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116 SCIOPTICON MANUAL. proportions, built by one of the Ptolemys and covered with profuse hieroglyphics. Passing through this, an^ other pylon, followed by a pillared court, and a temple built by the later Bemisides. HALL OF COLUMNS AT KARNAK. —Three thousand years ago and this forest of columns was standing, Hero Cambyses stayed his chariot-wheels to gaze in wonder at the triumphs of architecture. Here Sesostris was wel- comed back with the loud acclaim of millions from his conquests. The Ciesars were awed into humility when they trod these aisles, and even the Arab hosts, as they swept by on the tide to victory, paused to admire; and the armies of France, as they rushed in pursuit of the flying Memlooks, were so struck with amazement at the ruins that they fell upon their knees in homage and rent the air with their shouts of applause. The main aisle is composed of an avenue of twelve pillars, six on each side, each thirty-six feet in circum- ference and nearly eighty in height. Ponderous masses of sculptured stone. The spreading bell of the lotus blossoms crown them with an atmosphere of lightness and grace. On each side of the main aisle are seven other rows of columns, one hundred arid twenty-two in all, of immense size, and so close as sometimes not to allow a column that has lost its erect position to fall to the ground. They date from the time of Barneses III, the Sesostris of Greek writers. These columns are a good illustration of the way in which the Egyptians covered all parts of their buildings with inscriptions. THE OBELISKS AT KARNAK. —These obelisks, the most ancient now standing in Egypt, date about 1800 B. C. They are granite, and retain the sharpness of their angles in a wonderful manner. This view shows in a