n which they enframe, there isa striking general sympathy.^ The pecuHar character of Egyptian architecture is owing toits laternal extension, and to those wide-spreading bases andfoundations which suggest the incHnation of the superincumbentwalls. In looking at one of these buildings, we feel that… … Fir,. 60.—The Libyan chain, .above the necropolis of Thebes. architecture which is peculiar to itself, and suggests an idea ofunbounded durability.^ 1 Egyptian landscape is well characterised in these lines of M. Ch. Blaxc, takenfrom the Voyage de la Haute Egypte {\). 116): Pour le moment, notre…
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