LETTER XX.

Delightful climate--Indolence and leisure by day--Spirit of life and enjoyment reigns at night--Galley of a noble designedly runs down a small baris--Handsome Hebrew--Another startling resemblance to Prince Remeses!--The lad Israel again--Miriam, the papyrus-copier, the sister of the handsome Hebrew--What he saw, in boyhood, beside the Nile--His infant brother committed to the river--Subterranean chambers for casting images of the gods--The Hebrew gives an account of his people and his God--He mourns the oppression of his race--pp. 331-346.