LETTER III.

Climate of Egypt--Eternal sunshine and crystalline atmosphere--Costume of the Egyptian prince--Hieroglyphic writing--Legend of the Obelisk of Mitres--More of the personal appearance of Remeses (Moses)--The Hebrew prince Abram (the Patriarch)--His personal appearance--His tomb--Interior of Egyptian palace--Egyptian Mythology--Mnevis, the sacred ox--Legend of Osiris--Pantheism--Apis, or the sacred bull--Out-of-door life at midday--Hebrews, under their taskmasters, in the burning sun--Prospect from the terrace of the palace--Isle of Rhoda, in the Nile--pp. 53-66.