LETTER VI.

Visit from Prince Remeses (Moses)--Great gate of the city--Phalanx of dark Libyan soldiers--Varied accomplishments of Remeses--Avenue of gardens, villas, and lakes--Temples in circular lakes--Egyptian field-laborers--Hebrew brick-makers--Description of this "mysterious" race--Account of the mode of their toil--Cruelty of their taskmasters--Emotions of pity at the sight of their sufferings--The lash!--Beautiful Hebrew girls--Dwellings of brick-makers--Joseph--Scene at the "Fountain of Strangers"--Distant view of the City of the Sun--Of Raamses--Of the pyramids--Of the illimitable desert--Wounded Hebrew youth at the Fountain of Strangers--Majestic old Hebrew beaten by taskmasters--Touching scene--pp. 99-114.