"By the walls of Thebes-the old city of a hundred gates-the Nile spreads to a broad river; the heights, which follow the stream on both sides, here take a more decided outline; solitary, almost cone-shaped peaks stand out sharply from the level background of the many-colored.
Rocky crevasses and gorges cut more or less deeply into the mountain range, and up to its ridge extends the desert, dest. limestone hills, on which no palm-tree flourishes and in which no humble desert-plant can strike root. "By the walls of Thebes-the old city of a hundred gates-the Nile spreads to a broad river; the heights, which follow the stream on both sides, here take a more decided outline; solitary, almost cone-shaped peaks stand out sharply from the level background of the many-colored
