[104] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part i. pl. 81.
[105] Wilkinson, vol. i. p. 40. In the Description de l'Égypte (Antiquités, vol. ii. p. 474), we find this shape accounted for by opposition of two lotus-flowers, one above another. Such an explanation could only be offered by one who had a theory to serve.
[106] Extract from a letter of M. Brugsch, published by Hittorf in the Athenæum Français, 1854, p. 153.
[107] A good idea of this can be gained from the building known as Pharaoh's bed, at Philæ. It is shown on the right of our sketch at p. 431, Vol. I.
[108] These upstanding flowers and stalks form the distinguishing characteristic of the Nelumbo species.
[109] Herodotus, ii. 92.
[110] For the different species of the lotus and their characteristics see Description de l'Égypte, Hist. Naturelle, vol. ii. pp. 303-313 and Atlas, plates 60 and 61.—In the Recueil de Travaux, etc., vol. i. p. 190, there is a note by M. Victor Loret upon the Egyptian names for the lotus.
[111] Strabo, xvii. 1, 15.—Diodorus, i. 34.
[112] Strabo, xvii. 1, 15.
[113] Strabo only speaks of ten feet, which would agree better with modern experience.