“The views are of the country and river between Alexandria and the Second Cataract. One of the first views is of Cairo -by far the largest city of Egypt, if not in Africa. A little further on we have the Obelisk at Heliopolis, supposed to have been standing in its present position 1740 years b.c, and, if so. it would be also there when Joseph was governor of Egypt. Continuing, we have the Pyramid of Gizeh, perhaps 200 years older even than the Obelisk , Karnac, a village on the site of Ancient Thebes, formerly the great capital of Central Egypt , various remains of Thebes , the Palm Grove on the Island of Philae, remarkable for its magnificent temple ruins belonging to the last period of Egyptian prosperity, etc., etc.”