Alexandria.--Pompey’s Pillar.--Cleopatra’s Needle.--Collection of Werne.--Departure from Alexandria.--Sais.--Nabarîeh.--Cairo. --Heliopolis.--The king’s birth-day kept at the pyramids.--View from the pyramid of Cheops. LETTER IV.--AT THE FOOT OF THE GREAT PYRAMID, JAN. 2, 1843 24 Pyramids of Gizeh.--Private tombs.--Sphinx.--Storm of rain.--Christmas.--Life in the Camp. LETTER V.--PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH, JAN. 17, 1843 32 The hieroglyphical tablet on the pyramid of Cheops.--Historical gain. LETTER VI.--PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH, JAN. 28, 1843 37 The oldest royal dynasties.--Tomb of Prince Merhet.--Private tombs.--Destruction by the Arabs.--Oldest obelisk. LETTER VII.--SAQARA, MARCH 18, 1843 44 Pyramids of Meidûm.--Architecture of the pyramids.--The Riddle of the Sphinx.--Locust.--Comet. LETTER VIII.--SAQARA, APRIL 13, 1843 51 H. R. H. Prince Albrecht of Prussia.--Rejoicings in Cairo.--Return of Pilgrims.--Mulid e’ Nebbi.--Doseh.--Visit of the prince to the pyramids.--Oldest use of the pointed arch in Cairo.--Oldest round arch in Egypt.--Night attack at Saqâra.--Judgment day. LETTER IX.--CAIRO, APRIL 22, 1843 64 Situation of the fields of pyramids.--Cairo. LETTER X.--RUINS OF THE LABYRINTH, MAY 31, 1843 67 Departure for the Faiûm.--Camels and dromedaries.--Lisht. --Meidûm.--Illahun.--Labyrinth.--Arab music.--Bedouins.--Turkish khawass. LETTER XI.--LABYRINTH, JUNE 25, 1843 78 Ruins of the Labyrinth.--Its first builders.--Pyramid.--Lake Mœris. LETTER XII.--LABYRINTH, JULY 18, 1843 85 Excursion through the Faiûm.--Mœris embankments.--Birqet el Qorn.--Dimeh.--Qasr Qerûn. LETTER XIII.--CAIRO, AUGUST 14, 1843 91 Departure of Frey.--Ethiopian manuscripts. LETTER XIV.--THEBES, OCT. 13, 1843 93 Nile passage to Upper Egypt.--Rock-cave of Surarîeh. Tombs of the sixth dynasty in Middle Egypt, of the twelfth at Benihassan, Sint, Bersheh.--Arrival at Thebes.--Climate.--Departure. LETTER XV.--KORUSKO, NOVEMBER 20, 1843 100 Greek inscriptions.--Benihassan.--Bersheh.--Tombs of the sixth dynasty.--El Amarna.--Siut--Alabaster quarries of El Bosra.--Echmin (Chemmis).--Thebes.--El Kab (Eileithyia).--Edfu.--Ombos.--Egyptian Canon of Proportion.--Assuan.--Philae.--Hieroglyphic demotic inscriptions.--Series of Ptolemies.--Entrance in Lower Nubia.--Debôd.--Gertassi.--Kalabsheh (Talmis).--Dendûr.--Dakkeh (Pselchis).--Korte.--Hierasykaminos.--Mehendi.--Sebûa.--Korusko.--Nubian language. LETTER XVI.--KORUSKO, JANUARY 5, 1844 133 Scarcity of camels.--Wadi Halfa.--Ahmed Pasha Menekle and the new Pashas of the Sudan. LETTER XVII.--E’DAMER, JANUARY 24, 1844 137