[9] This picture represents a woman standing on the left; in front of her a serpent is erect, and looking towards her, with projecting tongue; beneath them, towards the right, are two figures struggling; and towards the left, two small objects, that may be vessels, though it is difficult exactly to determine their character. [10] Query, were not the “High Places,” mentioned in Scripture, also Pyramidal edifices. They were not natural hills, for the Hebrew term for the latter being גבעה while for the high places the word במה is universally employed. See 2 Kings xvi. 4., where the distinction is clearly made. They were in use among the Philistines, when the country was taken by the Hebrews. Numbers xxxiii. 51, 2. 2 Kings xvii. 9-11, and were, 1. Artificial structures. 1 Kings xiv. 23. 2 Kings xxi. 3. Ib. xi. 7. 2. Capable of being removed, but not so easily as the groves, altars, &c.--1 Kings xv. 14. 2 Kings xxiii. 13. 3. Were erected in their cities. 2 Chron. xxviii. 25. 2 Kings xvii. 29. 4. And in the country. 2 Chron. xxi. 11. 1 Kings xiv. 23. 5. Had small chapels on the summit. 2 Kings xvii. 29. 1 Kings xiii. 32. 6. And altars for offering sacrifice. 1 Kings iii. 4. Numbers xxii. 36, to end. 7. Also human victims probably. Jer. xix. 5. 8. Seem to have been connected with the worship of the sun. 2 Kings xxi. 3. 9. And with purification by fire. Jer. xxxii. 5. 10. Perhaps also used as places of burial. 2 Kings xxiii. 16. In Isaiah liii. 9. במה is used to signify a grave. 11. Sometimes used as fortifications. Judges v. 18 and 19. 12. They appear sometimes to have been of earth or stone. 1 Kings xv. 14. 2 Kings xxiii. 8. 13. Sometimes of wood. 2 Kings xxii. 15. xxiii. 8. [11] For it is doubtful whether the Pyramids were ever completed. [12] The Caliph Melec-Alaziz-Othman-ben-Yusouf (quite worthy of his name) sent a large number of workmen here with orders to destroy the Pyramids. They spent eight months, with pickaxes, ropes, &c., and put him to an enormous expense; but after all were able only to disfigure one front of one, that of Mycerinus, the smallest one. Even Saladin bade his workmen consider Memphis and the Pyramids as quarries, from which to procure materials for building the walls and the citadel of Cairo. Recent accounts from Egypt state that Mohammed Ali is taking from the Pyramid of Mycerinus materials for his great work at the Barage. CHAPTER IX. Rest on the Sabbath. Visit to the Pasha’s summer residence at Shubra. Exceeding beauty of the ground. Lake, and sports of the Pasha. Pic-nic in one of the Kiosks. Pear tree from the Pasha’s place of nativity. Brief history of Mohammed Ali. Departure from Cairo. Regret at parting with Mr. Gliddon.