Rossellini[75] informs us, that on the island of Bageh, opposite to Philæ, there are the remains of a temple of the time of Amenophis II., and a sitting statue of granite representing him. He was a king in the earlier years of the 18th dynasty, which, according to the Chevalier Bunsen,[76] began in the year 1638, and ended in 1410 B.C. Footnote 75: P. 187. Footnote 76: Egyptens Stelle in der Weltgeschichte.--Drittes Buch, 122. GAU,[77] in describing a temple at Debu, about 12 miles above Philæ, which he visited in January, and consequently during the time of low water, states that he discovered under the sand, at the edge of the river, the remains of a terrace leading towards a temple. Footnote 77: Antiquités de la Nubie, p. 6. A short distance north of Kalabsche, about 30 miles above Philæ, at Beil-nalli, Rossellini[78] speaks of a small temple in the following terms:--"Among the many memorials that still exist of Ramses II., the most important, in a historical point of view, is a small temple or grotto excavated in the rock;" and Wilkinson mentions it "as a small but interesting temple excavated in the rock, of the time of Rameses II., whom Champellion supposes to be the father of Sesostris or Rameses the Great."[79] He was the first king of the 19th dynasty, which began in the year 1409 B.C.[80] Footnote 78: Tome III., Parte II., p. 6. Footnote 79: Thebes, &c., p. 482. Footnote 80: Bunsen, as above. Gau[81] thus describes a monument at Gerbé Dandour:--"La chaine de montagnes qui borde le Nil est, dans cet endroit, si approchée du lit de ce fleuve, qu'il ne reste que très peu d'espace sur la rive. Cet espace est presque entièrement occupé par le monument, et la rivière, dans ses débordemens, arrive jusqu'au pied du mur de la terrasse." Footnote 81: P. 9. Parthey informs us that the temple of Sebua is about 200 feet distant from the river, in which distance there are two rows of sphinxes, and that the road between them, from the temple, ends in wide steps at the water's edge; and he adds, that Champellion refers this temple to the time of Rameses the Great.[82] Footnote 82: Warnderungen, &c., 334. It thus appears that monuments exist close to the river, some of which were constructed at least 1400 years before our era; so that taking the time of Amenemha III. to be, as Professor Lepsius states, 2200 years B.C., the excavation of the bed of the Nile which he supposes to have taken place, must have been the work, not of 4000 years but of 800. If the erosive power of the river was so active in that time, it cannot be supposed that it then ceased; it would surely have continued to deepen the bed during the following 3000 years.