The pathway of the sun is given as it is represented on one of the finest and most precious monuments of old Egypt in its proudest days—the wonderfully instructive monolithic alabaster sarcophagus of the great Sethos, Joseph’s Pharaoh, at all events the grandfather of the Pharaoh of the Exodus. It is now in Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields (page 138). This firmamental road way of the great luminary (the contemporary explanation of the “firmament,” in our English version, of the first chapter of the Pentateuch, the “stereõma” of the Septuagint) is so sculptured on the sarcophagus, originally it was also so coloured, as to indicate granite. The granite—this I regret—cannot be brought out distinctly on the plate. The beneficent action of the mysterious river, which made, and maintains Egypt, is suggested by the three wavy lines, the old hieroglyphic for water. The star-sown azure, which suggests the supernal expanse, the most glorious, and the most instructive scene the eye and the mind of man are permitted to contemplate, is taken from the vaulted ceiling of the temple of Sethos and Rameses at primæval This (page 100). How deep is the interest with which these facts and thoughts affect the mind! EGYPT OF THE PHARAOHS AND OF THE KHEDIVÉ BY THE SAME AUTHOR. _The Duty and Discipline of Extemporary Preaching._ Second Edition. C. SCRIBNER & CO., New York. _A Winter in the United States_: Being Table-talk collected during a Tour through the late Southern Confederation, the Far West, the Rocky Mountains, &c. JOHN MURRAY, London. _A Month in Switzerland._ SMITH, ELDER, & CO., London. EGYPT OF THE PHARAOHS AND OF THE KHEDIVÉ BY F. BARHAM ZINCKE VICAR OF WHERSTEAD AND CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN HUMANI NIHIL ALIENUM _SECOND EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED, WITH A MAP_ LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1873 _All rights reserved_ _DEDICATION_ TO MY STEPSON, FRANCIS SEYMOUR STEVENSON I Dedicate this Book IN THE HOPE THAT ITS PERUSAL MAY SOME DAY CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS DISPOSING HIM TO THE STUDY OF NATURE AND OF MAN SINGLY FOR TRUTH’S SAKE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The best return in my power for the favourable reception the reading public, and many writers in the periodical press, have accorded to this book, is to take care that the Edition I am now about to issue shall be as little unworthy as I can make it of the continuance of their favour; though, indeed, this, which they have a right to expect, is no more than I ought to be glad to do for my own sake.