Visits to Monasteries in the Levant
CHAPTER IX.
The Convent of the Pulley--Its inaccessible position--Difficult landing on the bank of the Nile--Approach to the Convent through the Rocks--Description of the Convent and its Inhabitants--Plan of the Church--Books and MSS.--Ancient excavations--Stone Quarries and ancient Tombs--Alarm of the Copts--Their ideas of a Sketch-book 105
RUINED MONASTERY AT THEBES.