"Around these buildings extends a spacious enclosure of crude brick, about 240 paces square, having two entrances, ono at the pylon of Isis, the other at that before the great temple.
" About 2:30 paces in front of the pylon of Athor is an isolated hypiethral building consisting of fourteen columns. united luy intereolumna• screens, with a doorway at either end ; and a shunt distanee to the south is the appearance of an ancient reservoir. A little to the north-cast of it are other remains of masonry ; but the rest of the extensive mounds of Tcntyris present nierely the ruins of crude brick houses, many of which are of Arab date.
"Five paces east of the pylon of Isis is another crude brick enclosure, with an entrance of stone similar to the other pylons, bearing the name of Antoninus Pius. Over the liwe of the gateway is a singular representation of the sun, with its sacred emblem the hawk, supported by Isis and Ncplithys. This enclosure is about 155 paces by 265, and at the south-cast corner is a well of stagnant water.
" The toWn between this and the enclosure of the temples, and extended on either side, as well as within the circuit of the latter ; but on the side appear to be the vestiges of tombs.
" Between the town and the edge of the sandy plain to the south, is a low channel, which may °nee have been a canal ; and it is not improbable that it was to this that the Tentyrites owed their insular situation mentioned by Pliny." We next arrive at Knits, the site of the ancient Apollino polis Parva, but the only distinguishable remains of the temple there consist of a large gate ; proceeding therefore southward, we arrive at Thebes, the temples of which we have already described. On the opposite side of the no Never, we have several buildings by of note, of which the first is that of Qortieh or Kurnu, of which \Vilkinson speaks thus : To commence with the ruins nearest the river :—the first object worthy of notice is the small temple and palace at old Qorn•k, dedicated to Annin, the Theban Jupiter, by Osirei, and completed by his son Retneses 11., the supposed Sesostris of the Greeks. Its plan, though it evinces the usual syminetrophobia of Egyptian monuments, presents a marked deviation from the ordinary distribution of the parts which compose it. The entrance leads through a pyloniu, or pylon, bearing. in addition to the name of the 11)1111(1e•, that of 1:emeses Ill., beyond which is a dromos of 12S feet, whose inutilated sphinxes are scarcely traceable amidst the mounds and ruins of Anti) hovels. A second pylon termi nates this, and commences a second drones of nearly similar length, extending to the colonnade or corridor in front of the whose columns of one of the oldest Egyptian orders are crowned by an abacus, which appears to unite the stalks of waterplants that compose the shaft and capital.
" Of the intercolumniations of these ten columns, three only agree in breadth, and a similar discrepancy is observed in the doorways which flo•n the three entrances to the building. The temple itself presents :t central hall about
fifty-seven feet in length, supported by six columns, having on either side three small chambers, one of' which leads to a lateral hall, and the opposite one to a passage and (pen court on the east side. Upon the upper end of the hall open five other chiunhers, the centre one of which leads to a large rooms supported by four square pillars, beyond which was the sanctuary itself; but the dilapidated state of the north end of this temple aflbrds but little to enable us to form an accu rate restoration of the innermost chambers. The lateral hall on the west, which belonged to the palace of the king, is supported by two columns, and leads to three other rooms, behind which are the vestiges of other apartments; and on the east side, besides a large hypiethral court, were several shnila• chambers extending also to the northern extremity of its Pre•incts." The next building that attracts our notice is the 111etnno rd um, nod tomb of' Osniandy as, of which ancient authors have given us such wonderful accounts; we give that of Diodorus Skit los stadia from the tombs of the kings of Thebes," says this historian, " one admires that olOsimontlii. The entrance to it is formed by a vestibule built with various-coloured stones. It is 200 feet long and 68 in elevation. On coming thence one enters under a square peristyle. each side of which is 400 feet long. Animals formed blocks of 2-1 feet high, semi e as columns to it, and support the ceiling, which is composed of squares of Marble of 27 feet every way. Stars of gold, upon all azure ground, shine there the whole length of it. Beyond this peristyle opens another entry, followed by a vestibule built like the former, but more loaded with all stunts of sculpture. Before it are three statues formed of single stories, and hewn by 1\lenmon Syenite. The principal one, which represents the king, is seated. It is the largest in Egypt ; one of his feet, accurately measured, exceeds seven cubits. The two others, borne on his knees, one on the right, the other on the letl. are those of his mother and his daughter. The V, hole work is less remark able fine its enormous size, than for the beauty of the execu tion and the choice of the granite, wLichi is so extensive a surface has neither spot nor blemish, The colossus has this inscription mint Osimondue, the King of Kings ; we, one wishes to know home &cot I am, and where I repose, lel him destroy some of these wo•ks.' Besides this, we see another statue of his mother, cut out of a single block of granite, and :30 feet high. Th•ee queens are sculptured on the head, to show that she was daughter, wife, and mother, of a king.