in the time of the summer heat. And the water came in great abundance, like the waters of the Nile at Abu. The king spake and said, ‘The god has heard my prayer; the water has come forth abundantly out of the rocks; the road that had no water has been made good under my reign. The shepherds shall have pasture for their flocks.’ A town was afterwards built at this new centre of industry, and a temple erected where Seti offered worship ‘to his fathers the gods.’ Guards were appointed to protect the convoyers of the precious metal, which was largely used by the king in adorning both temples and statues of the gods. Indeed, all the works ascribed to this reign are remarkable for their beauty and perfect finish, so that Seti I. can hardly be looked upon, after all, as nothing more than a man of blood and a lover of the fray. The chief of his works is a grand Hall of Columns that he added to the Great Temple at Karnak, founded so long before by Amenemhat I. It contained 134 immense columns of massive proportions, but, like his other undertakings, it had to be left incomplete, as his reign was not of long duration. In one of the corridors of his beautiful temple at Abydos was found the famous ‘Tablet,’ so invaluable to students of Egyptian history. It contained the names of 76 royal ancestors of Rameses II., going back to King Mena himself; and the young Rameses is seen standing by his father and offering homage to their memories; on the opposite wall are inscribed the names of the Egyptian gods and goddesses, and a beautifully executed bas-relief represents the prince, under his father’s direction, pouring out in honour of the deities a libation, which is received into a vessel full of flowers.