Visit from Prince Remeses (Moses)--Great gate of the city--Phalanx of dark Libyan soldiers--Varied accomplishments of Remeses--Avenue of gardens, villas, and lakes--Temples in circular lakes--Egyptian field-laborers--Hebrew brick-makers--Description of this "mysterious" race--Account of the mode of their toil--Cruelty of their taskmasters--Emotions of pity at the sight of their sufferings--The lash!--Beautiful Hebrew girls--Dwellings of brick-makers--Joseph--Scene at the "Fountain of Strangers"--Distant view of the City of the Sun--Of Raamses--Of the pyramids--Of the illimitable desert--Wounded Hebrew youth at the Fountain of Strangers--Majestic old Hebrew beaten by taskmasters--Touching scene--pp. 99-114. LETTER VII. Interview with the venerable Ben Isaac at the Well of the Strangers--Raamses, the Treasure-city--Joseph's granary--Exquisite temple of Apis--Beautiful young Hebrew girl pursued by the taskmaster--Her rescue and story--The punishment of the taskmaster--Intolerable burdens of the Hebrews--Garden of Flowers for the use of the temple of Apis--Account of the Syrian prince Abram (Abraham)--Of Melchisedec--Of the Hyksos, or Shepherd-Kings--Their conquest of Egypt--The Princess Sara (wife of Abraham)--Prince Jacob (the Patriarch) and his twelve sons--Joseph--Pharaoh's dream--Elevation of Joseph--Monuments of his power--pp. 115-129. LETTER VIII. Eagles of prey--Account of the Hebrews--Imposing funeral of the Patriarch Jacob--His powerful and able government--Overthrow of the dynasty of the Shepherd-Kings--Dynasty of the Thebaïd--Flourishing condition of the Hebrews in the land of Goshen, under the government of Joseph--Aspirations after the One God--Reduction of the Hebrews to servitude--Their rapid and miraculous increase--The massacre of their male infants--Courageous affection of the Hebrew mothers--Egyptian nurses sympathize with them--Infants hid--Queen Amense's humanity--Courage and wisdom of many of the Hebrews--Exciting ride past Joseph's ruined palace--Jacob's Well--The plain of the Hebrew brick-makers--Death of a Hebrew under his taskmasters--Sculptured obelisk of Queen Amense--Emotions of Syrian painters at sight of their prince--pp. 130-144. LETTER IX. Reflections on the degradation of the Hebrews--Hebrew pages and maidens in the service of Egyptian nobles--Amram, the palace gardener--Contrast between the physiognomy of the Egyptians and Hebrews--Remarkable likeness of Prince Remeses to the Israelites--Description of the Lord-prince Mœris--He seeks a quarrel with Remeses--Illness of Queen Amense--Filial devotion of Remeses--Magnificent prospect of the Nile, the Plain of the Pyramids, the City of the Sun, Jizeh and Memphis--Myriads of human beings at labor--Naval review and sham-battle--Exciting scene of contending thousands--pp. 145-157. LETTER X.