The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1870, Page 11

EGYPT. American Travel in the Land of the Pharaohs. Poorists from the Youngest and Freest Nation to the Fountain Head of Man's I'reedom, A HERALD GUIDE FOR THE TRAVELLERS, Sights by Day, in the Evening and at Night. Tombs, Temples and Antiquities in General. RIVER SCENES ON THE NILE. CHEOPS AND SEOSTRIS. SARAH, PHARAOH AND JOSEPH. ‘Fhe Resting Piace of the Infant Saviour. Our special writer in Egypt, dating at Cairo, pre- luformation to the American people—valuable paruicularly at this mo Ment, when so many of our countrymen are to be found tp the land of the Pharaons, aud wien the @ilod of the great republic ts teeming with more Bents the following vatuavle @nxicty dally wards tie Rast:— Travel in Egypt. CatKo, May 24, 1870. Your special t3 about to enact the part of a drago- Shan for Americans of all classes, rich and poor, old A dragoman ts never supposed to be Very learned, but to kuow everything about the Country he tives tn, to be able to show any place or He 13 not supposed Lo be able to decipher hterogiyphics or tell ‘What they were inteaded for, but ke must be able to * point out such anc such a tomb, or such und such a end young. anytDing the traveller may want to sec. temple, or such and such a reute, anu to take ci Of the helpless traveller wuile be sojourns in the land. Tie Usaaby special undertakes to do no more. EGYPT—HOW YOU GO THERE. Egypt is six days’ disiance from Marseilles by Steamer, five days by steamer from Trieste, three From Marseilles You may take your choice (or could when I, came long) of three ines of steamers for Alexandria, the portof Egypt. First, by the Peutusular and Oriental Bleamer, Which leaves Marsetiles every Sunday morn- Ing at seven o'clock; secoud, by the Messageries Im- periales steamer, leaving the same port regularly the Oth, 19th and 29th of each month; third, by one of Mare Fraissinet & Fils’ steamers, which leaves regu- days only from Brindisi, in Italy. larly every Tuursday morning at eight o'clock. BRITISH STEAMSHIVS. “P, and.” ataud for Peninsular and Oriental. The steamship company s0 named are cnttrely Bng- lish, aad are the richest of all steam line compauies in tne world. They own Mity-three steamers, com- Modious, well cabined, well oMcered, well proyi- These steamers curry the British mails to They are ims, officered by If you like Boned. Egypt, India, China, Japan and © ail commanded by Engitst capt Bogitsh and manned by English. the English customs take this ltne by all means, ylon. If you like the English mode of living, the polite- Ness of English oMcers aud Engiish watiers, this is the line you had better take. If you are rich and @re addicted to luxurivus living, fond of good wines, good beef, good muiton, mealy potatoes and British “stout” and “pale ale,” take this route. wish to make acquatitances anong English people Of rank and station, if you wish to study British manners, if you wish to see the British “snob,’’ the dandy, the Anglo Indian oMlver par excellence, take it youlike to fee wait- this line whatever you do. ers—“Pleage remember tie Walter, gr —with a two @nd a half dollar gold piece, if youhave any aimbi- tion to sec your name epon “round robins,” or Upon a subscription List for the aid of some unfortu ‘mate sailor, or a sailor who has sketched the steamer you are on; or come unfortunate English boy who has run away from his parents, and being repentant, ‘wishes to return; or upou a betting list relating to the time you will reach Pharo’sa lighthouse, why, this is the liue you must take. If youare a bache- lor, but alm at marriage when possible, you will wee pleuty of English giris wiih rosy cheeks, ruoy Jips, glorious busta, well elucated, well constitu- tioned, looktag for just such &@ one as you, this, the P. and 0. line, you will take without far, ‘The fares on this line are:—Firsi class, £18 10s.; second class, £10. (N. B.—A pound you may safely Count at five dollars.) FRENCH STRAMSHIPS. ‘The Messageries Impériaics is the French govern- Ment line of steamers carrying Freach mails to Mes- Gina, Alexandria, Cochin China, Reunion and the French possessions. East, Taey are all fine steamers, oMocered by French naval oMcers and manned by Frenchmen, They fave excolient cabins and ex- cruciatingly polite waiters, The beds are luxurious, though, of course, only wide enough for one person. Men oud women, tiarried or unmarried, are apart, unices a rich coupie hire a whole cabin of four berths, for whieh they must pay four times the price of one passage. The living on board these Gteamers 1s excelient—precisely as you may find it ‘@t a first class Parisian hotel, Breakfast or defeuner atten A. M.; dionerat five P. M.; coffee au lait, or cayé noir, black ovffeé, Will be served on the cabin tables from seven A, M, tonine A. M.; tea (thin, Washy stuff, with lemon and cognac, or as you like i) ateight P.M. Al lights must be out atten P. M. The lounges in the cabin aft are of the richest material. Books also—consisting of French, Eng- ish and German—may be had at the little cupboard Library over the transom, In the matter of batns the Peninsular and Oriental British line is better found than the Messageries Ampériates, because French people are no great rlovers of water. The water closets (cabinets) are clean and numerous, so no delicacy is wounded. Smokers must go on deck to indulge their habits; they will find @ light ready always in a brass box above the engine room. Birat clas Second class bird class, CLASSIFICATIO’ ‘The second class is two courses less than the first; ‘but in the cabins and attendance there is not much ifference; there Is more freedom and jolliness in the gecond class than in the stately, etiquetie-loving rst. ‘The third class ts not bad by any means; the cabin @nid beds wil do fo. respectable people; the waiter As civil; but the third class doves not supply food Wuless ‘pad for by the passengers tothe restaura- Seur, who will charge four francs or eighty cents a ul. as the passeuger of the third class cannot live without loud his expenses for the six days which inmervene between the departure from Marsctiles and aritval at Alexandiia at the rate of Coffee one franc, dojenner and dinner eignt franca, Would be ulne (anes per day, or for the six da Dliy-iour fanca, whict added to the passage money Would Ge 228 (raves. Unless a maa 18 Very poor it is HOt worth while io take tue pas-age by that ciass for ‘She saving of sixty six rancs. PUIVATE KNIERPRISE. Marc Fratssuiei & Fila have .1s0 excelent steam- ers, Compagnie Fraissuiet receives a subsidy from She French government, avd thereto.e despatch their bowis regulary, ‘These steamers stop & alalla for 1X Hours, Wich alow @ Vv sit to be made lo Leo Interesting oid Church and palace of ie Goréernun Phe Ghurca ts a superb Awe inside, bas BOMe very tytere ting lomes und pciuves, Bee Goveruors pa ace (urwidties he traveler wiih avy amount of knowledge re pecung Kutgily accoutsements and anus. The Tower of Londow aad wie armory al Madrid @0u6 Xcel ITN tals resect. ‘Lhe furtillea- tions @ Made ave “ait Word) luspection, and ne vie from the Wall, ate memerabie, ese later Bleamers ler Wavellurs Hue uccommodations aud If you 000 fare, bus not the aristocratic luxury of the Pe- ninsular and Ortentat or the stateliness of etiquct'@ of the Messagreis Iimperiaies. Loiwever, he would bean unreasona! le mau wie found fault with the living, the :tieudauce or the steamers. The cabins are mace to uceomimodate forty Orst class pasion: Bers, forty sccoud class and Lwenty tied Clas, First class ae £1200 400 Second clas wood “bo Towed clans. a 160 u ‘The second elas. has one course Jess than the first; In tie accomodations there is not much ditference, ‘The wird class ms on deck. La Societé Adriatico Orientale despatch a steamer every Tuesilay from Srmuisi, a ctty situated at the exireme southern polit of Ltaly, ov t exustern coust, It ts the Must agreeable route to hid and by iar the shorte 6. ‘The steamers are pablished as making We passage in seventy-two hours, but the average (ine Is eighty hours, On your way (o Brin- dist you go by the Moun C nis itne, then Pari, Florence, Kone, Naples aid Brindmt. The steumers of Uue are sail, bit saupiuous, ‘The living is semi-lrench and sermt-nauve lial raw Bt TO ALRXANDMIA. Firat class . A100 BBB Becond clas Bue 40 ‘Third class... Er ane rt Passengers wishing to sturt from Naples to Egypt may take @ fies class lickes to Aleaundria (rom Naples for 280 franca, LLOYD AUSTRICHIE: The Austrian Lloyis is another pe Gespatching steamers to ali ports of the Levant, ‘the sieuimer for Egypt leaves Trieste every Saiurday, where it arrives uu the sixth morning, Passengers by Uuts live stop a few uours at Coviu. ‘This line is du Correspondence wisi the Peainsular and Oriental Company's sieaiuers leaving Suez, A party of tuiee have @ reduchion on their lave of Uuity per cent. ‘bey ure all Ve.y superior steamers on ibe Austrian Lioyds, With Lirst vale accomodations fur tie pas- gebgers. A Surgeon is always an board, and & BLeW- ardcas (0 allead ty the Wants of lady passengers. THE FARES. by the Austrian Lloyds the fares from ‘Trieste to Alexandria, ty iusive of everything, are a8 (ollOWs:— erful company, Pirst class. B1te. Bd Second ciass, Pe) oo Third class. w Such were the means aud routes, ant cost of travel wo Egypt whea | came this way, ani | have noi beard that any of the steam limes have been @iscon- Ubued Blace, AY ALEXANDRIA—PIRGP IMPRESSIONS, Every steamer arrives at Alexandria at daylight, When the traveler nds bis stewuer ancnered he must suuimon to hts aid ad the patience and good temper he has in his system, for without yo he can- hot get along in Byypt, avd the ordeal he gues througd upon first itrodaction to Arad laud ts ory- ing iu the extreme, Out ef the hundreis of Arabs that Wii spriug on board when prefique bas been obtained he must use nls eyes and his judgment cooly to select & boatman to Wom his baggage and family or Limseif may be eutrusted, He just thea show him his baygage, and if he canuot speak arabic Jet him point it out, But almost ail the Arabs uncerstaud more or leas English; “pigeon Enyisi? at this time will serve hup in good stead, “My baggage—take—boat— hotel.” ‘The nouns’ Arabs pick up readily, but the verbs are hard to masier by them, vaguage deposited im the bows, with the same calm, uuruiied Gemeanor tb hin bid gool-bye tw his compagnons de voyage, and deliberately and coolly descend the ladder at the steamer’s site to Mis boat, Working lis Way gently trough the crowds which occupy it. When sea.ed inthe boat let bim say to the boatinan, Go,’’ politing with his hand or his bead, and he will soon be clear from the noise and comienuiou which Is raging in ali parts of the slip. THE HERALD GULDR. I will now address the traveller tn the first person; for} am the dragoman, Jt ts not Hecessary lor youto stipulate for the price of a boat afier you read Unis guide, When you land ou Shore pay the boatiuwan bali a france per head for each person of your parcy og board; If you are alton: Pay BO more than & franc. ‘The boauman wiil take you to the Custom House, and alter he has deposited your tilags on shore pay lin his fare, not before, Your things wilh then be taken by the ready aids, Who stand about waiting for hire, to the Custou House, witich iy ten paces from the landing piace, ‘The Custom House officers wail demaud your pass port; alter an examination of which they Will suy they Wili send it (o tue Consulate, whither you must go Lo appiy lor it. Your things will then be exam- thed; Out this may be avo.ded by paylug a vack- sheesh of two fraucs, which ts better Cian ihe trou- bie of opening your trunks aud laving your cloties by nob over-ciean or over-geniie handa. After tue examinauon of your baggage se- lect the number o: mea requisite “to carry it and have them cou 1b to & carriage, Which Will be in Walling outside the building. ‘ihe you will have to PAY backsheesh to tue porters. H there aie two give them a irauc each, Do not be too liberal; tor Uuey Wil not thank you @ bil; but, on the contrary, thak you a fool, & greenhorn, or a man Who has got a0 Wuch money he KNOWS Lot What to do Wiih tt, HOTELS. When your bagg: 18 it (he Carriage it 13 time to think of Bowe bole. Now, What hotel you wish peuds ent rely upon yourseif, I you are rich you Will, of Course Waul @ fits: class hotel, but if you are boor the Charges Of Lhe Ursi Class Hotels ure 80 heavy that you ill hoteare ubout patronizing them, Bat here is a list witch you will Had Of great advantase, aod they are placed aceyraimg to ihe order cir merit:— Fane: First—Pentasular and Oriental Hotes ¢Zngitsh), per day” Becond—iotwi Abbatt ( 1 bot up: ‘Tuird—Hotel d’ curope Freye), per day. Fourth—iotel d’Angictapse (Freich , per a Fitta—Baroot’s Hotel Ttajlin), per day. Siath— Hotel de @ Geran), per dai Seventh Hotel des Voyageur «french, por Toe Powasnige ent Urienal Hotei 1s thy best. Tt overlooks tie Place des Uonsuis or the great square of the city of Avexandrii, It is @ large, reomy hotel, freyucnied mostiy by Englishinen and Americans, 1's table ts excelent, conducted on the Preach style—c.ifee, With eggs aud cold beef#, at eight A. M.,djeuner at one P. M., dinner al bail past six P.M. ‘Tais hovel is patronized by Englishmen travelling overlaid to India, aud the American iraveller, if oa the same steaner with over and passengers, WLLL Go well to accompany tiem on the mail steam tug to this hotel, by Wiuch Le will avoid boat fares and cus- loms backsheesh, ‘The Hotel Abbatt is a thorough Freach hotel, con- ducted 1 @ most iberal mauner upon the French Diav, It over.ouks tie Lew piace Of Ismail Pacha, and i8 immediite y beliiud the British Post Oilice. ‘Tue Hoel d'urope, “patronized by his royal High- neas, ihe Prince 0; Wales," overlooks the Piace des Consuls, gud #8 si daicd directly Opposite the Penin- sular ald Oriental Hotel. Haroni’s Hotel ts a board- lng house situaied behind the Greek churc:, a tow paces from Place email Pacha. It is @ cieau, Beat Place, and to @ person uf moderate means it Ls to be Tecoumended. Hiei Trieste, Hotel Luculius, Hotel des Voyageurs, Hotel Joye, are situated tn close proximity to each other, neither of them being far from tue business centre oi Alexandria, All ave very moderate in their charges, ranging from five to eight francs per day. et After arriving at Uh presuming that you have a letter of credit upon your banker at Alexan- dria, you had better proc-ed to get it cashed before four P, M., at weich time the bank will be about ready to ciose‘for tie day. Get your monoy in N polcons, and be sure to convert ail foreiga money Inco francs, Aud Willy You are ta Egypt i is best you should count your money in Irancs; and remember that five ir > are supposed to be a dollar, aad that twenty frances make oay Napoleon, or four dollars, ‘The sigits Lo be seen at Alexandria ave as fol- lows:—Cicopatra’s Needie, Poupey's Pillar, Cieo- patra’s Bains, the Catacombs, tie Underground Aqueduci, kgypian Bazaar, tue Mahmoudich Canal, Cwesar's Camp, near Rawle; Ramte & Buikiey’s Ho- tel, Rasebti, the hiedive’s Palace; the, Luarkis alhs, the Byyptian Caiés, the French Caiéa, Cat Biantaut aud Theatre und the American Consulace ‘There you have a list of everthing in tabuiar for worih seeing, and no.e ove advice, Which is, Never be tu 60 much of a hury as net to be able to see everything; for Wien you arrive at your own home, and your dear irends question you upon such aud such @ Uting Which they bave heard of or seen, you will be able io say Consc.eutously “Lave scen ail.” HOW TO “DO” IT. I will suppose you having arrived at your hotel by eight A. M. Jrom the steamer; that you have abluted yourself, Changed your upparel aud Hnished your case au lait vy tea A. M.; let ine, ten, arrange for you @ healthy mode ol disposing of ine sights. Geb # dragoman for (ue day iminediately at seven fraucs per dy, then hive & carriage by (he hour at two and & baif trancs, or by Uke day ac bweaty francs. From ten A. M. to one P. M, the hour of dégeuner, your ride would be wise a ‘olluws:— CLEOVATRA’S NEEDLR itands close to the Ramle Raiiway station. It is a wingie block of red granite, seventy fect high and seven aud # ail feet square, set up by Th thiies LIL, Who reigued 1463 K. U., soon alter the Israelties of Egypt. ‘The mate of this obelisk lies almost buricd butatew peces Irom I It was given Ww the Bug- lish by Meheimet Ail, bul ite pouderous weight hus Unus far deterred lie trustees of the British Museum Jom the wt.cuipt co remove it, YOMPRY'S PILLAR stands @ quarter of 4 mule outside the old fortified walis of Alexandria. It ls one block of granite, seventy-three ject high and uine feet in diameter, resting upoa a solid pedestal of granite. The total height from the substructure to the eapilal is ninety. eigiit feet nie inches. ‘Lhe capital 18 of the Covin- thian orde Yptologists say it was erected by Publius, preiect to Divcletian, the Emperor. THL UNDERGROUND aQquEpUct. This is a most periect Goustruction, lave.y discover: ed. itis menioued by Cwsar in his commentaries, und Was to cou water to the citizens’ weils. Cwsar, at the siege of Alexandria, poured salt water lute Uns aqueduct, by wh 3 the wails were reudered 80 biackish (hat Wie c.ttzens in danger of dy tug of titest Were compelled to capituiate, CLEOVATRA'S BATHS. These have heeu but lately excavated, They con- Bist O1 four or live sinali Cuambors, THE Ceeeconns are close to the sea a#sie. One of these is very in- teresting irom livviug a most perfect cuaniber, very elegant and ptorned with Greek taste. To explore any of thes you must haute a rope aad candies; but You m#si icave tis WOK for the afternoon, unless Yor ULe salisuied WH Lhe mere visit. REST AND “TURN OUT.” For the afternosn'’s tak | would recommend you lourive to the amie sition, and take ihe waln to Kumto—lare one frane, disiwuce tive lilies, Buikiey's Hoty and gardens are Wel worth seeing. Raimle ts the Biotrite of egypt. Tae summer is passed very ivasantly here froin (ue excelieut sea bathing to pe Mui, and ine pieasaad breezos Wheen cniad ally Blow irom tie sea, From dumle walk to Caaar'e Camp, which les three-fourths of a wile west, Close to the sea alore. Having seen ils + arumed ple of Neptune stands, only a few yards from Mr, Edward Virvard’s house. From the Ramle visit you will retarn by the half- past three o’clock Feach Alexandria in tea minutes, which will ullow you sple me to drive from ike Ramie station Lo , the Kuedive palace and gardens, which are very beautiful. AVTHR DINNER, By this time tt wil be time to dress for dinner. After diuner vistt the cafts—Caié @orient, Cale du Club Egypuan, Cafe @*Burope, Café de Frauce, Calé WaAthines—to listen to the musi’, eat ice crean drink lemonade and see Aiexandrlan society whi enjoying a fine prospect of the sea, which is to t bad, espectally from the Cafe d’Ath nes. Afterwards visit the Bourse, Which will be open, where you can read alt Europeun newspapers of any note aud see the principal inen of Alexandria, You may, per- Laps, wish to see a care chaniant. The best is two ‘oors from the Peninsular ant Oriental Hotel, where there are a prina donna and several amateurs. You bay Nothing, but call for coffee or a drink, to be selected from a carte on each table. The singing and acting is excellent. Comedies and operas are essayed here, besides bailets, Ziztnia Theatre and Opera House is a recherels Ute aliair, and would be Ho disgrace to any Buropean capital, NIGHT. Your frst day In Alexandria has been thas well Spent, Unless you are abort to proceed to Cairo by the morning trai yo, at seven A. Mi, alter taking Coffee, to the Purkish bath. TURKISH BACH—HOW IP 13 TAKEN, The Turkish bath is a neeassity for a brople climate like Egypt; for you wiih have porspired saiiicieutly the day before to wish ior a bach, a bhorougia exco- Tiation of your opidermis, to keep @ ciear brain and #sound body, These are to be obiained at u Turk- ish bath. You euter tirough a low door into a large domed room, in the contre of which @ fountain bub- bies upward, ringing @ merry pea! with a Uny ball of brass in Which @ pelle? is eueiused, Which ts BbOb up by the Water, aud spits it rouad aod round with the deftoess of @ Citnese juggier, Tbe floor ta of mar- ble. Around the roow are raised platforms, on whic: lo one of these beds, where you will undress; rst of ab, however, tuking the precaution to hana your valuables to the master of ihe bath for safe keeping. See that aciean clota is laid on the bed to receive your clothes. When you have denuded yourself to your drawers see tha. a cloth is ready to be wound about your body, lest your modesty be shocked, Your clothes will be folded up in the cloth and lef. at the side of your bed. A turban of soft linen will then be folded about your head and @ white sheet throwa over Your shoulders, You are now ready tor (he bath, You will be ied, with the greatest caution, with your jet in wooden pattons, over the sippery marbie for, by your cucos-cuolored cicvrone, through two or three winding passayes to tue bati room, vaulted, were irightul taundering eho ring through the cavernous had. The voce of a man in this Vauit strikes your (ympaaum like the crash- dng echoes of artillery shui, Li two Arabs quarrel, 4s 1S often Lhe for you—the subjeci—you wil almost be deatoued by the noise, but caunly impose sileace upon thea aud permit some one to lead you wo your plice, Two or tivee small chambers open from (his bathroom, the doors of which you will be Orst able to perceive through the reeking hot vapor and several weil undergoiug the several processes of, the bata. Around youare several Kuropeaas iylas stretcned on (he Warm marble, like hogs parboilel; an Englishman on his face fuillength wich iulocks of Jat desh quivermy to the vigorous manipwiations of the coal-cyed Arab, Who seetus Lo enjoy his Work; & Freuchman on Uls back ab iui lengi with nappy sUDMRISstOu In his face, loosing for all the world as if he was uD atrance, while his attendant peels “macca- roni” from bis abdomen and cuest; ta striking con- Uast to the marble fesh of the European is the polished ebony skin Of a Nubian geutieman who has @ leg in the lap of an Arab, Wuo appears as if he Was striving to wash out tne color bias will not be Washed wilte; and yourself aiready tn iwanquulity, Appear aa if you were an interesting subject about tu undergo dissection. You are leit ta perspire, and in five minutes the perspiralion siarts from every pore of your body lke beads. Having arrived at tae proper stage, with every muscle sofiencd Aud the rigid Bet of the Douss s.ack- ehed, an Arab approacies, feels ee vendecly oa the abdomen, audit you ae ready re siaps tis handy With suilsfacuon. He takes your hands carefully and alides lis bund up aud down to tue measure of a iullaby and strips tue epidermis of 1s accreuons from closed pares. Tae hand is patted lovingly, tie Kouckies and jolats ol tie Hugers are made to Ci genuy; the other hand and arin undergoes & simular Operaion; iheu your cuest, your sides, each Mb moving under the Hem but gentle pressure; then your abdomeu; thea your legs, with, oh) such @ e- lictous feeling siealing over your worm body, ihe feet are clasped, pressed, rabbed, flagers, litue aaa Broa Fes DENY Teslored to ANIMATION; Lie soles Oo! vie Teer lose cheir rigidity and excrescenves, the Acillcs tendon becomes as spilugy asa voy’s, the shins and calves lose their rhewmatt: aud ciiot feeling. You ave tueu roiled Over, We C0. be feds. ened aad lad just to cover what your mudeaty could hot bear to veveal, The shoulder yuwtce ave dau dexterousiy, the spline receive “attention, wad ail pai or fatigue is desertag Feat body. Your unlshs aie reatored Lo lie, ap, Lo lover your whole sy ateur Tids the ward Cyrraue of Ife, with glad Urrobbing a3 In the ase OG) Doyuood, before cares vexed your brain ena aed work sapped your congiitudon. Yow the marble bie you are Uren mae to rhe > aad follow your aiteudall to one of tae recesses, here there 1s a Wel: of warm Water, will drop, In this well you will stay long to complete the resuscitating pra 4, untth you will feel as perfect and sound in body. Out of it you wilt issue as cleauly a8 a Babe. yet the bath is hut over ye tor your .rlendly attenaant muse soap you all over with a bowl of suds spread over you wilh a brash of palin bres. Wile bis saponaceous state you will feel yourseil lifted above mortality, for you skin seems to mei at ihe touch, Copwus and swilt pouring turrenis of tepid water cieause you from the last taite atom of dirt, irom the least contace With anytuing of uncleanliness; your ave purity tteel!, Wale robes enveiop ast whole body and a snowy turban swathes your head, putvens cil case your Jeet, and in this wise you are carefusy ied over the polished, slippery fveors, from | warm to tepid rooms, trom’ tepid to we cool hail which you first enlerea. On Your bed you at jast rest m a tranquil, Mentatly biossing the man Who rst nted bie ‘Turkish bath, Not yet, however, are tie dudes of the altendants towards yoa over, You have to ve kueaded dry, pressed and roied into shape, as if we pleasant faligues of (he bath had somehow reude You unshape Whatever feral humors remained in your system when you left tue sudartum the ary- Kueading procs will Certainly take the.u out. The wotion of the atiendant’s hands over your body, andante, sooluiug, barmonious, w.th” the memory of the luxury of the batu, and paradssate, slate of existence in which you will find yourself will soon render you heediess and insensibie of ex- ternal tunes. But beivre you lave gone quite to dreamland the Ucxitag of the soles, C.used by the application of a@ stone Tasper, Willi awaken you, only to experience a fulter tasie of the joys of tie bai, The last operation, however, is alarming w und peuple; for we aitendant will bid you sit up, anid Will delibevately proceed to try the sfengti of your ribs aud sternum, besides experimenting upon your shouider blades. But tt is all part and parce: of the balling proc and you wilt feel We better for it; @ad this closes it. You wiil now dress. When about to dress your hair the attendant wil furiish you with a comb and round glass, upoa Whiten you wil place ti price o: the bath, two and a half francs. The attendants will clamor loudly for backsneesh, but pass oa, heedless o! the cries, unless you have been ily favored’ by one of therm. tC ives get iheic baths fora franc, but their bath consists in being merely plunged aud vathered, whereas you Wil have bad the bencilt of five attena- anis. EFFECTS. You will find a vast difference tn feeling and ap- peaiance When you shall have inhaled tie iresh alr ouwide. Tue ecrused appearance of the face whlch great fatigue owises wiil be replaced by ural, heathy boom, tue languid kK by au uprignt, sturdy carriage and Vigorous strides; unit instead of the dias malorwm wich the weariod body would have sung, you Will feel ready to bursi into sonorous plalse of the Turkish bath, TUB AMBRIOAN CONSULATE, You will now be in an eupeptic mood, ready to swaliow your breakiast with the beat of men. After breaktaxt be sure and cali upon tie Consul General of the Untied States, who, I have no doubt, wil be happy to see you. Do not ask stupid quesiions, aud show yourself to be an ungraceful saphead—a wreenhora, such questions’ as the folowing you Thight ieave ont:—"“Wiat time docs the mail for } thy Wavelior Wal Gave Mo right to compla.ny NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. world, An invitation to dinner is followed by one to breakfast, then to lunch, then to dimuer, aud you will aiways dnd excellent pommny at their tables, Sioging, music and a certala friendly abandon char- acterize | the orening. Besides, xXundria Ramte for the wealthy Aiexandrians, Indeed, 1 know of no place, in spiie of the horrors of Mr. Duke's de: miyirery where @ week could be better spent. If you have plenty of time you may visit tae extensive (ortiications, the harbors, Pharowh’s liglit- house, the Greek and Protestant churches, the American Missionary schovls, the Necrop ils, the gardens, aud if you have 4 quu lake & day's shooting near Lake Marcous From Afexandria to Cairo. The distance ta 130 miles, The express train makes the journey In five hours, the accomimodat.on or OMDibUS traiM an six hours. Taree tains leave Alexandria for Cairo daily, Express tran, eighs A, Mj omnlous trains, with first, secoud, tiird and A. class Carriages, forty minutes past nine A. M5 aflechoon trail, Lory Lables past Wo P.M. Faves, Airst Class, twenty-two franes; second, fifteen francs} Unrd, Seven Canes; fourtit, four iraucs ‘The StAuous are Newt whitewashed edifices, and are thus placed at Alexandrio:—Kair-cd-Vamiar, Avon Humunus, Damanuour, Tel-ed-Bavoud, iatr- aidog ed, Taguh, Birset-el-sub, Beuha, Toch, Cahoub and Caro, At hufr-el-Zeyed the train crosses the Rosetta branch of the Nile over ay iron bridge, and at Bent the Dani. ta branch over a ten-areh Wiouiar bndge buut by the famous Kobert Stephenson. Benbais (he juncuion where travetlers ea voude ior Isinatila, Sued, aud Inuta change cars. Until it meets win the Roseita branch o& the Nile the Maugudich canal runs almosé paralies with the railway. THE LAND OF RGYYR, ‘Tho view of the Laud ot Byypt is superb, as you @rtuk it in frou Lhe windows ol 2 COUMOrable ex- Dress carrlage, i68 Ving green, bis groves Oo. paluas Tsiug up tirough haze, leathery aud tulled; its Oceaus Of corm slalé rustling befove ine Ktvsian Winds, its winding sweeps of Vegetation shivering as the breeze passes over it; its stiver Linus of Waters rupnigy through vnc trouga te lad, Uke Combis UAl SuccesmOU Of Scoues Of anumal ute; ite qualat Wombs, pathetic under palin treed; tus towns, brown, low, squatted, fureade.t w.th thia lines of white, lorded over by a stetely ambitious minaret, wiih (ue heaveuly sky of Kyypt loviagly enclostug (his won- derful ourgrowth o tropical land, unuMsiakubiy re- mud you that Egypt hes before you, CALRO—PY RAMIDS. From near Bonva you behold for the frst time those wonderfur pyramidal scructures erected by the Pharaohs of old. Frou Calloreb you see tie Maka- dum range wwering avove the Silin minarets of Mohaumed Aii's nivsque; you os the Wads of the Citadel 1D stately mass beneath tue mosyue, And be. Jow these the thousand mfiarets of ihe Cairo mosques rise shintagly MM mudeair, with ie town seen in Fomaniic interludes between distant and separate clusups of pais and sycamores, Wii a few buudred yards 0: the Calvo slaueu Lae Ucket cor Jeclor comes wroand; then, With a conuuued slick, which may be heard tor wiles in the caim atmos phere of Hyypt, the tran gildes slowly into ke sia ton. Asin all Arab places ana gittes, the din from the Struggling coach drivers, porters aud hotel boys is overWheiming. Bub long be.ore ts you must Lave chosen the hotel you are to siay at. ‘ACCOMMODATIONS. The following is @ list, with thelr prices, of the Dest hotels, according to thew merit;— Firat—-Shepheard'a Hotel (Eogitah), per day. Secoud—Love) worient Frencu), por day. . murd—Hoter des Amoasaaieur (Freach), per day uth kobe da NU UFreneb), per uity.. ricch—Hote! Aurig (French), per day Sixth—New Hote: Usngima), per day... Seventh—Hotel abbot Ce reuea), por day. Kighth—Howi d'eurspe krench, per vay. Muth—Hote) du France (Frenca), per day, Tenta—Hoves Victoria reach , per day. Kieventh—Hotel des Pyramides (Freueh), per day. Shepheard’s Hovei is the best in Caivo by far. it 18 Coleoraved now for Lhe uuMver of gi eal laeh Who have sopped there. KaAteusive addiiivds lave beon dade lo it, ‘There are gardeus allacued to tb 1b frout and sear, Tue rooms are spacious aud luxure ously Jurnisded, Batis are .OUNL on the predises ‘Lhe Wines aie of the best aud ite living is Unexcep- fouable. ‘The best carriages ani the suiariest dou- Key boys in Cairo are ullucues to the hotel, because they Kuow thal baglstiwen aud Americaus Whe fre quent it pay better tuan Freacawea at toe oluer howls, 1 would recomend all AnjeetCans who can alfurd if ta stop here, far ihey whi Carly away Wabi them pi@isduler recollections of Cad thud 10un Way Where else, The Movel dOrleps, 24 well as all the principal hotels, is situated gi the Hsuckeeyah. its charges Wo be sure aye rae butt is an excelient hote:, wad Jor all lug ler Of exceLeuce Deopie Must pay. | Lue View bron is Windows ls Worth (he mouuey. bul, in wiitou Lo a good ule, good Wines aud good Leds, ag: spowen tere. Hotei du Nil is tauuus for 1s tavies and tts yordea. The Hotei dew Atn- is ily wortuy rival lua good table and police aitendunce, ‘the New Hotei la a stupeadous: palaual structure, bul Lae table is Lost Inweravie, de wad boat by ao bnglish company caucd ibe Oriental hotels Company, imited. "Ruey gave been Very and always Whiuruuite 1a Wwelr choice Of mau asers, The present manager, for Whow Uke com- Pony HAVE BH Undue aflecuon, Was never “born w keep a hotel.” Hoel diburope is tie best of the recon Class hotel4, aad Las A neh beticr table Hine Lie New sivlel, You ib hares DUb Len iranos a day. ‘To (rayelers Who have uob wm over abundauce of money i Would recommend Hus Heat htde hovel, At hes on the ie.t laud of the sUest 4s you procecd from te TaiWay station, All the hoicws charge extra tor wine and beer, You had becter deckie upon your hotel before you come to Cairo. If you have uot wien baguage taxe dust England leave? and the mat for France? and the mail jor Brindisiy What tine might 1t be when the train for Cairo will leave’ and tor Suez’ and tor Ismallia? What is the posiage of a letter to ine United States? and to Kngiandy aud to Frauee? and to Spain? aud io Russia: and io Siberia? and io Crim Tartary? How much are donke) 4 vy the hour? What backsheesh would you pay u donkey boy after aridey How much is a uragoman by the duy: DO you give him avy backsheesh Lesites’ What back- sheesh shail I give your man Hassan for openlag the door for mo’ How long have you been tu bgypty How old might you be? What siiary do you get? Do you Lke Eyypt? Lam very much obliged to you, Ine Geed. Good morning ; but, by the by, cau you tell me Where 1 can buy paper colar? Are they very dear’ You don't know tie prive of them, do you Wonld the kind, goodnatured reader of this guide belleve that such ‘questions have not only ouce or twice, but hunireds of tines, been asked our neral? Yot it is a tact that America emits ch blockleads every yea Ths specimey of an idiot generally halis from SwWampiwwn, rarad.st county, State of ——, or fropt Tankeeyerle, down in Vermont. ‘to tho: lesire seformetion upoa any subject counected With Exypuan travel | woud say Cut this Lotter Gut of HERALD, buy Murray's Handbook, or Hacdoxtr's, ask Ue Consuls clerk, the dragopea of the Consulate General, but if you are @geptieman do not bother the Cousul any mue Hide yOu can Help, THD TRAIN. At twenty minutes of three P. M. every day Uroughout the year the afternoon train for Cawo Yeaves Alexandria, While gomg to tie depot you Will se° the Egyptian cafes and cross tie Mahiou- dian canal, ALEXANDRIA “IN @) Str Charles Wentworth Dilke, , Who is @ most admirabie man—who has writen a most ad. tmtrable book, called “Greater Britain’ —says of Alexandria, in this sty for kauvery no place cyn touch the molern Alexandria, One word, hows ever, is far irom describing all the infamies of tie itvurpasses Cologue for smelis, Benares for Saratoga for gaming, Paris itself for vice,’ very word of this quotation is truth itself. Noe thing 18 exaggerated here; but, nevertheless, Alexandria is not a bad place to spend a week in. There are beautiful drives, beautitai wo- men, Nepatome hospitality to ve found at Aioxan- dria, The English people at Alexandria are, | think, the most bearty gepcrous set af their kind in the adonkey, aud give your porumant au to up Ara porter. ‘Tue price 1s hail a trauc for tue donkey aud hat @ frau¢ tor te porter. A carriage dusis two Lanes, ROOMS AND CHARGES. If you intend to re-tdeylong tn Catro take apart- mens which will be irom ao ly S90 Icaacs per Month, Of a TOOML at lv) ivanes per mouta, ab w house Where apartinents are Ww ie. ExXceueut board may be bad ub ibe restaurant Vercie Urieatal, Op- i wv iranes per munth. Ac te jlovel da France you wil be aule to imuke an agrece Ident for 169 francs per moaik, The Dew Ouiupt ds a Greck restauraul, and tiee are two or unree others Where board may be Oblaed wy 120 Iraave a dnvolh, CITY AMUSEMENTS. ‘The amusements of Cairo Cousist In music at the ies, Of WhTCH there are a great many abd Well kept; tue opera, Theatre Comique, Circus, Chautant, at the Ki Dorado; gaping at rou ete Lables, Arad Jadiasias, SUC As 1 described 1a wy guide to Upper dogypl; mae and teuie dancers velug engaged at Cairo. ‘the Opera House is a magnificent butiding of wood, Wich the majority of peopie say os. $40v,V00, The best aciors and actresses and valet givs of uro| are cugaged bere, in 1s Lateriur decoranions reminds Ove oi the Viympic twealre, New 100K, cept Liat theve &¢ Ho Hares screcus in the Lauer. Lie operas ae in liam, Adiiss.ou—eigut, ve, three aud Uwe francs. Lue Tacatee Oowigue is French, and is a perfect Dijou of & Uheaire, erected by Lhe Viceoy lor Lue avd Occasion of the pueZ Canal Maugucdty Tue best Freneu comedies are played bora, Aduussion—elgut, five, three und two francs, The Circus of Cairo is ie equal of any tn Europe or America, Splendid gymuasts and inazuticeut horses are seen here. Adiissiva—five, Uiree, UWo and one irauics, Arab sociny may be seen here, a4 the naiives prefer to see clowas rather Wan dear prime donne, beswes, they cai see far up Wwe clowing of Buropeaa lems, and Us 1s pacadise to then, ‘Vie 41 Dorado 18 9 sitntiar institution to the Grand Calé Chartant at Alexaudria, exveyc tac the cn ace Lee 18 One frac, and & bUCe Of beer, ur of rn jonade 18 doub.e price, Gauibiag, Toulvite aud fare abies are convenient in the ual. 'nd—"“MASQUEKADERS. 1? h cases, sole OL Wah are very handsome, Oriental Cairo possesses Arab institutions of Gua Kind Wiica remain abyvays curiosities, To the Bgyplian ewes at night wend the opin smok- es, We Ghazeeyahs anu cnawal Tue Gaas eyaus have been noieu elaborately in a former letter, but tue Cuawal—iuystery Of mysterlesi—are young awa, ed in women’s cloiies, saaved cleanly, aud erated With an abundauce of goid aud siiver— iu two words, they are tne male * aracte.s!? of Cairo, whe th, Ghazecyals are the jeuuie. But beside the former the latter are%ugeis. SIGHTS AND BXCURSIONS. You have to see the pyrauids and tombs of Ghizeh, the citadel and mo-que of Motiamuted Att, tie touibs of the Calipts, Niomeler aid 1g uf Rhoda, the Saraceu and Mameciuke movin tne paiaces of the Pacha, the Petrted rorest, ins of Matsresh, Toura quarries, pubile foyrtatus aud Josepir's Well, Hellopol Ovelisk, tng Holy Vree, ihe Barrage, Boulac Museum, Boulac Aqueduct, Jewisn Burt Grounds, The Yyrauids ol Lakvara, ¢yoom Lake, Sioobra Paiace and Garden and tie Bazaar. The Pyrawids, Sphu “tempie and tomus of nize you wad better $79 first, Muke urrange- ments with your dragomey, take unch wih you aud goeury. Pay na inge idan twenty irancs. Stipu- Jace with your dvagoman beiore you leave the nocel that he shati pay all backsheesh to doukey boys aud guides ave assisianis, Wo you arive PyraiwiGs select two decent lookiag men to nani you Up, for you will not be permitted to aseud woue for two reasous—pecause Lie Khedive wou bastinado every man of tiem should an accidead happen to you, and because wey at bacashee b. Taeretore, ‘to Cul the story shori, Lake LWo OF Lie 6 luen with you, and wien you are down again pay them hall a frauc each in addition to the fee whica the dragoman has stipulated 10 pay toe chit first of all ask yourself, Is it really necessary th tt at tue should go up? What 13 to be had ior the ouble t ‘dhe answer will ber the troune & eat, but wie view from the suminit is uuequalled. by you bave any disease of the heart (o not go up nor tute the poramids, because @ calamity might haypea. CH HOLS. You will obtain a more duradle tmpresston of Cheop’s Pyramid by wavellg around 1s ba Whetler you ascend or not, 1 wouid recommend you todo tha. If you are sound in healtu ake your ©udles wad prepare Jor the faugue of the explora. liou Of the mterior. Take only Wome. wilh you two men lor each person out for your pockels while in the inferior, Tue first ting you will do Wil be to cautiously ercep down the first passage, which 18 ot @ fearful incline and fearfully slippery, Look Out for your head, oiberwise you will gec a stunner, When you bave reached ievel ground be- low look Up aud around you; then coolly pioveed up to tue Wueen's Chamber, You must be on your guard agalost slippiig, as if you were Arst attempt. ip, skating, for the tuge biocks ave 4s smooth as glass. Up, Up you go, step by step, per eel eymnastics ab each move; the poispiration will start from you as if you wee iu @ su- dariam of @ Tarki#sh bath; your collar and linen will be Pre Wired ap. ‘The | are pla Jacen's Chamber does not terminate your explora fooe Higher, higher uit you facend for hve minutos of painiul aseeut aiong larrare biogts, at the end of whitch time you will be ta the King’s Chamber, Try and geta giim:se of the sky tirough @ small hole whick padses clean through three hundred feet of stone and mia)Rap you wil see stirs, Yoo can Dut admire the skull and night of the ancient E ryp- tians, which you have been all aiong admiring from the first moment 0: your uplook trum the base of the Pyramids, You will say when you Ov ue oul that it Was not worth the trouble; but nevertheless people Will go, ami so will you, L have no aout, WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT TiMES. My dear traveller, the Pyranuds are the most won- derful -truc tures in the world, ‘They were erevied in (hose Saturnian times whea gods and he 380 5 Were supposed to wander (o £tiopta from the Oly u- pian heights of for @ tweive days’ feast; some Years before Homer issued war epics for the ae- Nght of mankiud, 2,000 years betore Christ Egy pto- logists place the date of thetr ere tion. Your eyes Will be jaseinated by Urem, your whole thought con- ceutrated upon ti ‘or there, a8 you see them. have Ltaey siood, with their numerous courses of bloeks = superposed = on above another, until their apexes have reached the dizzy hebght of neery 6u0 feet, Youare but a poor treimebuned, with & short span of Life belore you, side by side with those immutable, everiasuing stone structures, Three thousand years before you were bora men came to gaze Opon these with hke purpose as yourself, Fer- ir not, therefore, to drink In Hast Sauterne aud Shampagne to the everiasting lite Of Pyypt. But for @ pro-aic sentence what would you say if f tod ou tial such # pyramid coud be badt in Central Park, New York, Jor the suin of $69,000,000, mearly @ yvar’s revenue of the Umied States!’ New York city would become bankrupt. Yet 16 were a great thing for New York could & have but one pyraumd, One hundred thousand cravedcis per ansua woud come to 100K at Wiis @ene, Such an tudux of people may be reekoned ot ten dollars per head benetit to the elty, which Would be $1,000,000, dad at this rate 4. would be 900 years before the sua pall oUt had been covered. Too costly a luxury is & pyramid for the city of New York. VEE SPHINX, After doing your best to photograph the size of the Breast pyramid upon your iniud sop over lo where the Sphinx siands uy majesty and power, work out face has been say abused by souveu @aiberers; yet through the lopg array UL centuries it gazes, secimingly yea lung for (ie days of the Pharaohs, Ah, that semichidike suile, slighily sad, yeb swrel, you will remen- ber, If no Coarse-umicd = person as Will ou you will be drawn toward it. Donte augh me when I tell you that though this ds the fifth time l have seen tue Spiiax, yet each Ume the Unpres sion Lecomes wore and more fixed that if George Washington's lace w uiplared Lik stune of a similar size tt Would look Exactly itke (he face of tueNphinx. Pervaps Lam « fool, but do not Diame my candor, Avery learned luau says of the Sphinx, “Evea now, afer allthat we have seeu of colossal siatues, ibere Was someting stupe' dous in the sight of that enormous head, its vast projecting Wig, KS gi@at cars, ity open eyes, the red color suil Vis.bie On Lis cheek, tie tmimense® pro- Jection of the whole lower part of tia face. Yet wit Dhask tv have been wien On iTS bead there was the royal helmet of Egypt; on is chia ie royal beard Whenthe sione pasemeutby whic. men approache yYFUMdS, AD Up between its paws; When 1 Inediate.y Under its breast se gitar stood, true Which The simO,e Went Up into the gigantic nosTils 0: that nose, ROW Vanished from the Lice, never to be conceived aga!" ‘The iront parvo the Sphinx 1s that of a man, the Dider patis ator alon couchant In the Bene o1 Pliny tt was 60 ieet higa, Ls ieagta ldo Let, ‘Phe head to-day 1527 feet hig. Ju the year 1815 Lb was hail bunedin the sand. Salt, the Abyssluan trav: eller, and Cayigud, au Italian, seb to work to clear it Unt rose avove the sand forty feet, They cis- covored @ Bight Of stone steps beiWween the paws lead ng (0 a loupe beiow the #tatue, The temple and s.eps are agala burted der the wand. NEW DSCOVERIES. But other importqae disoovertes wave been made close to the Spbrii«, wich were open tor the ‘nspece on of the fm, ress Mug nie, ‘The walls, floor and coumusef a spendid tempie have been found omy efow feet soutuward © the Sphinx, Alongside of Ure stupendous, suvothly polished red granite Uloeks with whch this temple Ls bulb those Oo: Medi- net Avou aud Karnac aro a8 nothing, The sinaliest biocks in the Wats me iware ben ect Mm length by #) feet in Height, but there are blocks there wileh Mosk easure thirty feet ivug by eiguy fect in healt; aud al tueso ave us perect us Whea chiseled at tue quairies. TOMBS, You will do well to visit the tombs west of the Sphinx, the two other pyramids, and the six lesser Ones, Alter seclug ail oc these you wall natfirally Wisi Go retura. You may be able to purchase very geod antiyues bere, such as scarabeli aud blue pot- tery idols, MOHAMMED ALI. ‘The astadel and mosque of Mohammed Ali are sit ated at the base of the Mokuttum Mountains, at Uhe southeast extremity of Cao. Your vide thither wili be thvoagh the most Oriental part of Cairo, throug Cool (ues overung by Lait houses and jat- Uced palcoules, through which you will perceive Many @ dark boauty stealing a 100k at Une farr-faced Frank rhuog by, past several lateresting old ues Of the Mameluke age. You sh suld got fail 1 Lhe Dew Inosque berg built, wo for cit. San we Ofarcultecuie Will excel apy over la the shatumedan world. Its foundauons were laid in Jody. When you arrive at the mosque of Mohammed Ail take cure to oMend no Mohammedan by un Reemly conduct, for the people are finaties in tins quarier, ‘They wail spit after you, bus take ao heed O01 that, Unless you and the offender aloae, when you may safoly thrash him. There is a revolving pliar 0: alabaster lasde the mosqu Beemngly Bupporeing the roof, r eifort of your . Ths is & Most HOb.e edifice called after Mohaiumed At, and contains his wd. Jit ypnarets chadenge the livst attention of tue tra- veifer as ne approaches Cairo. ‘rue view from the walla of the citadel {4 super), even better than that obtamed fron: the summit of Cheop's Pyramid, THE NILR Like a wide band of sliver the Nile divides the Magnificent Valley in two. Cairo les beneath you, Wita its myriads of white miuarets ris.ng proudly above the city. The dark foulage of the prove tn tie Eabeheeyed, the grea dome of the new e.rcus, the palatial structures of th: opera and the Now fotel are reen, dud beyond these, beygad the Nile, be- youd Une bett of green at the very verge of the mys- terious Libyan Deser, stand the Pyramids, Visit the place where the Mameiuke Key leaped his horse to escape the massacre of lis peers by Moh mmed Al. Pay backsheesi to the mosque and Chtadei guide two pias ers, Tae Tomos of the Caliphs may be visited as you Teturn by making a short detour northward, Tuese are very interestiig fromm the very perfect specimens of Sardeonle architecture whien they preseut. La the aiternoon visit Shoobra Palace aud Gardens, ‘The drive there is maguiticent, through two miles of an avenue pianted on each Bide with umbrageous tama IX trees, Pie Shovbra Palace aud Gardens are owned by Haim Pasha, uncle vf the Khedive. BARLY MORN. Next morning may be e: ed in visiting Bonlac, or old Cairo; the acqueduct, the romantic looking bridges, houses and shops; the fine old palaces, rei nani of Mameluke weaith, The best beta in Cairo is to be found at Boulac, ‘Then visit the bewutitul Isle of Rhoda and the Nil- ometar, erected in tue miath century, for the meme surement of the Nue's inuadation, HATCHING BUGS BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS, While you are near Ghizeh you might cross over the Niue nd Visit the very curious operaiioa of bl Peas according to the Egvypuan syqlemt of arudclal meupauon, There are gov of these ovens al Ghiaeh, and (he mode of the operation ts ag tol- Lowa: On the morning of the day destined to begin Via op. ration dung ire is placed iu the celly to Ware thei, and al sudset Beveral Luousald euys #Ye dis- po-ed lu toc. ‘The ure i renewed Lezeo times @ duy—at dawa, at midday and at sitset. There is, however, no exact rules laid dgwn tor this, The building m which these o¥ens ave situated is composed § of w covador forty feet log and fly broa @ne vaulted” roof has five sual wertures wo adue light, In the centre, # the right hand, tuere is a dvor three and # hall feet high aud two and a half feet broad; this leas tu another corridor forty-eight eet long vy live broad, glo having a vauited rool, in the ce of which there are tiree apertures of nine inches judameter co vdinit light; to the mgte and ieft hausd of the corridos there are five divisions or cellé of two stoves. Each inferior room or stove has an opening one und @ bali foot square. The largest roum has anoiner aperture above of two feet tive inches tu height and avout two tcet break, The Wails of (he upper stove begin rectangular from the ais and finish in @ vault @ little over six feet igh. with wa ho.e in the top. The door of this room 1s Dine feet long by cight tect broad, and has in lis breadth twagrooves or Lroughs about a foot broad aud two incles deep tn the centie, and in the mid- die iis has @ hole two Jeet in diameter, Tne Orst Tooni (as you enter) to the right has a fire always kiadled in a stove paced there, The frst room to the left hand has nv Boe in Wie ground of the upper shove, Dut Only a tissure Which separates the tour Tom the wail, to wile Jt ts, however, united by several 10h bars lu the form of an oblique grating. Into this cell ihe duug used for fire is thrown througn the hole in the top. Lt passes ulrough the gratlog as through a ¢ and 18 takea away Curougn tie lesser aperture ‘to be taken to the op- posite coll, Wie. CO sta Ds the fre. Lastly, to tae lef band of the outer corridor there ere two rooms fitecu lect square. With yaulied Looks tweive feet ligh in the centre, tuese having also openings to adiait alrand leht. These placos ace intended for the preparation of eggs, as Well as for tie young chicks When tuey issue vat of their sheila. ‘The Walls of (ese iMimense ovens are coustructed ot the Nile mind nixed With siraw, but the arched roofs are of burnt bricn. Asmall Giabankmeut of earth piled upon two lengthy pa m runks divides the two cel.s Into .our stoves. this embaukinent is plastered over Win Uck Thad, and Upon fais is placed tue lire which warms these long ovens, A little straw Spread even on the ground of the two corridors on GxCi divislon eich Hide Of the embankments, and over the siraw id placed @ Mat, Whereon 6.000 6. gs ed. AD egg Musi NOL be OTe than LWenLy- one days old. The duag chips, or dims, as tie Arabs cail tuem, are crusied to pleces by band, and Ja tae Drst room to the right iwo heaps of burning dims wre covered wit common earth The auus must burn slowly, without starung mo fones. It is taken up wih a fire shovel, put on to @ plate of baked earth, and ailerwards placed tu the grooves avove mentioned, winch have been frst hail-Lied with cold dims. Aga u a few dims are placed upon the buruing portion, and over tie woole some earth is sewed. Hot dius fiom the niagsstue 1s cou. tiuaiy replaced by an equal quantity of Uhis sane fu When the heat tans generated bogias to | eeu, and all su0Ke has disappeared, wil the apex tne Se wee! the roofs of peers. he vt ts ut ite great meter ts 216 degrees Pabrenheit, ‘hem -ehe extinet, Jus: be Ore ite renewal, tee heas| degrees renheit, soure Imes a4 low a9 degrees. Haul. @ it Limes In the twenby- hours the following operation ts perfur.ned:— A man eatirely nuked enters by a door the amalies corridor, having ftst, however, tak-m tue precam: tion to take om! a buneh of tow from the ot the roof that he may have light Tne onus are fully movea {rom place tu piace, from to mde, turded over and (heir postion so changed wbat —_ ms of (he epg be exposed Lo the same Warm! be removing of the egus takes paw during tae might us well as the day. ater the seveuti day there is asensivle decrease in tha degrees heat, wo ch never ts allowed to exceed 106 Pahreubet for hat aud the folowing day. Op thé ninth day the five is pat out, aud the cell’ hitherta Unocoupied, buts il having fires, are those Which Dow reevive tie egzs, Where the removing pam aod care are still untiringty kept up. On four: tevin day an eatire hab of the eggs are placed ina room where a bet of tow lus veen prepared for thei. Eggs not having been im the oven for elgnt days are considered irest, On the sixtu er soveuth day tuey are looked at through a highs If an p> pears Opaque it 1s tuferret tue operation will sue. ceed; if still Wanspavent and white they set it down @sabad cge Toe eggs Waich are considered ta have formed are carefully lid up wm tow; every fssure and aperture leading to ther eetl ts closed up, Duriag Wie Very iaat days of th: process the bolea in the ce.ling of the Vaullare nov only stopped with tow but also with eart., On the eigowenath and niveleenth days the Laeraoweter indicates from 96 to #7 degrees Palirenacit. On the twenty-first day when the young culcks, perhaps to the number of 1,000 or 1,200, tssue out of the lot (6,000) Lhe eat is 98 degrees Fabrenheit, Aa soon @s (he Chickeus are bora (he exgsheld are thrown away. They ace ali carried to the two rooms eet part for them, Where y are thrown ip heaps Wita very litte concern, They are kept here ES haps one whole day; the next they are taken tote te corrider, Where luey pass another or: On the thid day tuey are pul luto baskets aud distributed @uobg parucuiar houses, Where Uicy are fed with Broumd corm aud Aard ¢ggs. During the day they are eXposed Lo the sun; beiore suusel they are carried Wa Koom to be sueitered fom the cold. The Arabs hever help a chicken to break 1s egg. ‘This Work 4s a monopoly of afew, and the Bayp- Uan Bove ument Consequently levies a considerae Wa on it, As lay be Luadined, the colleeung of 6a auy Laousand eggs 18 a Work Of great lavor aod eXpouse. ‘ibe care required by Ue young Chickena ds great and attended With unmeuse Loubte and los, sURSel Tey Uaust all be housed; tiuelr food drink most be gitended Wo, and cleanline=d aud other Je Gaies Lidst Hol be Heglected ifn tue rearing ol thew. Tue Chickels raised per annua by Unb arlde Chal meinod ave salt ty niunber about 60,000,090, Oue ihortuig Must be dev oved to visit Une Museuny of Baypt, ab Koulac, Kept by AL, Maree, You wae leave the Museum a mich wher nan chan vat en- tered 1%, for there are mit KCL rare Uecasures of things as One Cannot see anywhere ez. Kays 2,000 ears old, corn, grams Of Wheat Mwla the lomba of Benilasown, sale socked in itel dirk recessed for 3,sou Yearg, Gud yet have proderveu Vitality, for ope of those graius, piaptes, eprouls grecaly ln @ shart Mine. Tueie ls biga’t, ain, such as Josep gave bo daceb aud Wt sens Wuek they cuime huugered ite Egy vt, s(0n as perhaps uouisued & Pharaoh; planta Of ts) brads, ani thousands OF Curious, prebky Wier beades, Piaraoh s daug ter lies li state there, and der jewelry, Le wiost CuuMlag workmanalilp ta gold dud’ Silver Gud precious atuues, axe seem Dere la & wuss case, PHY SAVIOUR'S INEANT KES, ‘The eveutig of this day can well be cuployed in driving to Kelopolis Aves and the Holy Tree, under Wiel Tac Lkaut Carist cesied, With Dus jie Teale, When they reached Kyypt after thetr Sight from Pulesuke, OW may be a scopic abyul the Wa- diuOu, bal sue fyuvuds Haines are Cut LALO Lak te aud the surroundings Of It are decidedly rogane Uc, AL obelisk, Slanding IsOisted amid leu uid and green corn AtAIKS, «MNKs a wile OF MeMOBOA Lucky be iL Lunt Wiere li anying olherWise oD, OF Hecopolis could nol have bee Waced. Lidpossivle lo COuceive compieler forgetiul- hess of & greal city, ‘£he obelisk stands for noghtog: to the ubloiiered iu hieroglyphic: lo the Lilerabe it bears tie luserlption Osirusea 1 Tue uiates of bats moutneRt are Lhe Obeilsks of Wie Laeran, (he Vat eau aud of Lue Porta dei Popolo, From the vielany Gl Lis Solliacy one wore Whey taken. Two vealiged great Temple of the pun, bulit by Joseya’s in-law, abd tue teacher of Moses, are all that cal be LOU Ye fe the Obelisk; the oiber Ww pool, cordeved with Wwillowé and Tank reeds, Quoc $ eo Spring of the Sun, OE ee AP Raa DRIVES, The fourth morning you cau euiploy in ridiug or Griviug out Lo see the Petrified forest, No greawer cheat Was ever pracused upou any civilzed lierale being than to call this the petrified forest, For there ts no petrified Jorest or petrified wood, Lor Is tb “one of the great marvels Of nature.’ What pases Under tis name @ potiou of tho Mokattum Tange, ten or eleven mules vast of Cairo, strewn picuuifuily aver wit aud about two of tires doen peirided igs, WHC Bre Boat: tered far and wide, 80 Unde iy Wouul be Wit Consid- erable Giueuty that @. Maa could Gujt tuay-BiX actunl bona fide petrified logs. jhe” greatest mumber together, lytag gide by side or @ad to ud, te bine = The Test Of iis “Wwouderful forest” ts composed of chips, gmail pieces of sioue, Whick resemble Wood, som tered far aad Wide. do “Womderul’ dy Us fobe@et that you caunot ture either a doncey, boy or 4 dtago- Man ty take you to the wetual place Gf uiost 1aiBrdal. However, | would advise youto iry Ue ad soe af MUCh Of the best of at Gat you can, FOUNTAINS. The public fountains are numerous, Jovepii's well 19 Within the citadel—not called after serspiural Juv seph, bututter Saladin, ‘The palaces of the Paoka are splentid. There ts @ Duichiaan © aud iound at the Casrei-Ni, or Nie might show you that spectinen of your way to Casrel-Nil lake a look at "th drome which is beng built, at the enormons caseene of the Ezyplua soldiers, at SkerL Pacha’s pained aud stabies. UP AND DOWN THE RIVER. A day migut be well spent going up and down the Nile, from tne upper point of Khoda to the Areens ‘The Viceroy's splendid yachts are well worth ae ing, and your dreams of Urieutal live will be more alized. st also devote aday for the bazaara and Caravanseries of Cairo, to seo All Pacha's stables, with fis 160 hor or pure Arab boud, some of Wihien are Worth $5,000. ‘The ast visit you had better make to Lakhara, tf you are not golig up the Nile, bet if you are gom@ up you may ieave Wt alone until your dat cured to Lakhira village, ‘the vist thier Wil take two days {rota Cairo, and wilt coat you, for Oragoman, three camels and tiree drivers, tent aad cooking, tweuty-ive dollars, it wit De mach Cheaper each person Lf you are a pariy, The deago- man I4 the best man to tell you when to 8 art; Hut if you start at flve A, M. you will reach Lakhara ot taree P.M. Wile the drivers are attondiug to their camels and pitehing your lent aad your cook pre- Paring @ Heal, take your dragoman, with a dosen candles aud mat to expiore We lengihy tunnel, w there are Tweniy-sIx black sophagii of the bull Api. These are une positively Wondertul to bevold, Hypa the bulis laid tn finer state than any King, each in his own vault, For you Walk Wretign a tine! lune dreds of yards la length, ane at every interval of & few yards on the Tghtand left are yreat recess Where le ihe sereuphagt You wil flud cause to Wonder Bt this piace, certainly; vor Wil you ieave it Withokt paving pail the highest coupiiment ta bye pean skill aod migot, TOMBS, PITS AND MUMMIBS. A few yards outstie from the entranc nel lies the beauiuul v. Tt ix te sie and best pre: ed tomb in ‘y traciag OF @ach Cojusn and wail ts as perfeet as if the arlisiic sculpior had bat left it the aight pre: Yious. You could alinost write & history of the dor mestic Ife of baypt from tne wails. Whateyer u there done ty so fattaful and natural to the ite thas You grasp the idea as tlustrated ina moment, Bor Instance, Whore is & procession of donkeys carrying corn tribute to P. You see a donkey in a fleld being loaded; under the welgit le seeuss to stagger. Ia another place he 1s from un it, having strug@ied for bis liberty. ‘Tue drives Welabors hun la anot picture; the donkey kicks about and plunges, but be 14 Dually maslered; und lo! aller ten or twelve pic- tures Uustrating his career, We find um at last be- fore P., with the tribute on lis back, AU magner of Social customs are here illustrated at length, fron Playing @ gawe of cribbage to tie bulling of # Bip. Tere wre Mine pyrainids at Laklina or Memphis, and aa for mumiay pits and tombs of ibises and Muiumied monkeys they are counties, SAKAM, YMAROAH AND JOS EVI. Memphis was the oidest city of Egypt. It saw Abraham under {ig purticoes; Sara was loved |g Pharoin ag ne looked at her from the widows of his palace: Joseporin its halls administere i uate the Wants of (he starving mulions of Kgyp!. There are also some Greek aud iouiin siatues of great interest, to the tune SESOSTRIS’ STATCR. But of the great winples, palaces and wansions of Meinphis, Wie oldest city uf Egypt, roled by great Seoosuis hinself, there remai bat tie taunel, which ts @ portion of the Immense Terp'e of Se:aptsy but the Pyranids of Abooseer aud Lasiura; bait tae ef Pharoau, and one thiag more, which isu Colossal Statue Of Sexosiris, the Cou jueror of we World, aud mm & pool of waler, Wit Is enormons back turned upward aod its fade downward, as it it Was bowed down m shame and grici at tae ater desolation of Lumous Memplus, The profie of ihe face is exquisitely ent, mu More beautiiul than the ceiebrated sta ues ot Abo Sanbel. Tus pool of water ts enclosed ta a forest of paling between the river aud the Pyramids. But Uiose who regret Liat Memplits tke great, great ety has 80 few ruins, may reo Nothing in ail Egypt except tue Py anids cana equal Apis’ or (he great tunnel at Lakhana, witn their splentid rows Gf sarcophagi, Aud more aud more i beug dis covered eaci day, for under those unm@euse Iounds Ane and débris, deeply buried by Nile seaunent, jes Mempis. M, Manruce is contuulng lis explora. tion With itelligence and spirit. RIVER BUKRAGE The Burraye is we place whe Wailers of he Nile and permit them to Rew over tie Jaud. Ismuiithe Kuedive is buliding @ low thee Called “Tie Chadel of Said." TB RAILROADS, For the better information of tWavellers I append A thost corret tabiw Of Tallways, With the depariure end arrival of (ratus, such as is mot seon ut any galde OUKs © they dam up the LINRS OF LOWER RAYET. From Alexandr