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CHAPTER XXVII.
Cairo—Cheop’s Pyramid—Venict—The St. Gotthard Tunnel—On the Rhine
—Visit in Holland and England—Father Nugent—Arrival at New York.
The train has stopped, and we are in Cairo, the capital of
Egypt. The beautiful, the joyous, the memorable Cairo,
with its gorgeous mosques, its half mystic, half historical
monuments, its narrow streets, and a life, a commotion and
an oriental splendor strongly reminding one of the legends
"One Thousand and One Nights." In company with a friend
from America I visited the principal mosques, bazars, parks
and other places of interest, and the next day we drove out
to the great Cheop’s pyramid, which is located about eight
miles from the city. Here I again met with a monument of
antiquity which filled me with wonder and admiration. The
pyramid of Cheops was built before the birth of Moses,—yes,
before Jacob came down with his sons to Egypt,—and it is
possible that Joseph pointed out the same to his aged father
as a proof of the greatness of the country and its resources.
According to Herodotus one hundred and twenty
thousand men were occupied twenty vearsin buildingit. Its base
covcrs about eleven acres, and its height is about four
hundred and eighty feet. One can get an approximate idea of
the enormous mass of material in it, when it is calculated
that it contains stone enough to build a wall one and a-half
f_-et thick and ten feet high around all England,—a distance of
nearly nine hundred miles.
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