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1 ) > Brace 1. 185* It was one of the most extraordinary
sights, i ever seuv. The Former mountains were
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blade of grafs upon them;‘but these now before us,
had all the appearance,; the one of' having han
sprinkled over with Havannah, the other with Brazil
snuff. — p. 187. The porphyry shews itself hy a
fine purple sund, without any gloss or glitter on
it, and is excudingly agreuble to the eye.. . The
granite is covered with sand, and looks like stone
of a disty brown colons. But this is only the change,
and impression the sun and Weathes have made
upon it ; . . Next to the granite is the read marble.
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looks, as if the whole mountain were spread over
with brick dust.. . .
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the plain, which had heen corried down by a torrent
these Were white, mixed with biackspots;
red, with green veins, and blackspot? . . . . p/187.
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1) 1. c. p. 188* The level ground, and hard-fixed
gravel are: proper for the heaviest carriages, and
wills easely and smoothly cpnvey any whigt wath
ever to its place of embarkation1 on the.Nile; só that
another wonder ocased, how the ancients transported
these va stblocks to Thebes, Memphis, and
Alexandria*
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3) Turner p. 303, 4* 403.
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