The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 303
much honour to a nobleman to possess, as it does to the artist tohave executed. Although it is only a collection of specimens, yetthey are so united, and the character of the whole so well preserved,that they communicate the idea rather of a private apartment than apattern room. With these… … COLOSSUS OF SESOSTRIS. During the period of their dominion in Egypt, the French erecteda bridge across the Nile, uniting Old Cairo with the Isle of RhodaOf that structure no other vestige now remains than a fragment of thefirst arch attached to the old stonework of the Nilometer. On theother bank…
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