The hall itself is four hundred and twenty-two feet long by one hundred and sixty-five feet broad. The stones of the ceiling are supported by one hundred and thirty-four columns. The largest measures ten feet in diameter, and more than seventy-two feet in height. They are covered with carvings and paintings whose colors are still bright, even after a lapse of forty centuries.
Gazing on what he sees around him, the traveller becomes lost in the effort to form some idea of the grandeur and vastness of the original.
Word Exercise.
- Cairo (kī´ro)
- ob´e-lisk
- căp´i-tals
- cen´tu-ries
- co-lŏs´sal
- re-lĭg´ious (re-lĭj´us)
- pro-pōr´tions
- E´gypt
- mŏn´o-lĭth
- cĕr´e-mo-nies
- he-rō´ic
- ĕn-gi-neer (ĕn-ji-neer´)
- dy´nas-ties (or dyn´as-ties)
- mĕm´o-ra-ble
- ăv´e-nūes
- prĕs-er-vā´tion (z)
- pyr´a-mĭd
- ex-plōred´
- dĕd´i-cāt-ed
- hī-e-ro-glyph´ics
LV.—TO MY MOTHER.
Henry Kirke White.
And canst thou, mother, for a moment think
That we, thy children, when old age shall shed
Its blanching honors on thy weary head,