CAIRO and the DELTA 40 Ismailia, a Health Resort 41 The Marvellous Nile 42 The Seven Cataracts of the Nile 42 Lady Duff Gordon and her “Letters from Egypt” 43 Christianity and Theology 44 West Bank of the Nile 45 Memphis and England’s Colossus 46 The Great Pyramids of Geezeh 51 The Patriarch of Pyramids 52 The Colossal Sphynx 53 East Bank of the Nile 56 The Land of Goshen and Field of Zoan 56 Heliopolis and its Obelisk 58 Cartouches of the Pharaoh Usertesen 60 Temple of the Sun, dedicated to Ra and Tum 61 The Obelisk, Symbol of the Rising Sun and Life 63 Pharaoh’s Needles 63 Napoleon’s Address to the Army of the Pyramids 64 What have the Obelisks looked down upon 64 Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph in the Land of Goshen 65 Village of Matareeah; the Virgin’s Tree 65 Hot Sulphur Springs of Helwân 66 Chronology of Ancient Egypt 68 Manetho, the Egyptian Chronologist and Priest 70 Analogies between Obelisk and Pyramid 72 Ornamentation of Obelisks 74 Scientific Knowledge evinced in their Construction 74 Carving of the Obelisk 75 Legend of the British Obelisk, by M. Chabas 76 The Flaminian Obelisk, of the Porta del Popolo 79 Legend of the Flaminian Obelisk 81 Standard of the King 82 The Grand Assemblies called Panegyries 86 Legend of the Paris Obelisk 87 Legend of the Alexandrian Obelisk 88 Moses and the British Obelisk 89 The Pharaoh of the Exodus 90 Era of Joseph in Egypt 90 Nile Voyage from Cairo to Thebes 90 Habits of the Crocodile 91 Geology of Egypt 92 The Mighty Ruins of Thebes 93 Memnonian Colossi; the Vocal Memnon 94