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Most of the structures are of a sacred character; and columns, obelisks, sphinxes, colossal statues, mysterious sculpture, and subterranean palaces, all fail not to move powerfully, and fill the mind with images of gorgeous magnificence and costly labor.On the western bank of the Nile are the Tombs of the Kings, the spots chosen by the ancient Egyptian mo-narchs for their eternal abode. In entering them we descend magnificent flights of steps, or wander through long corridors, vast galleries, lofty halls, and spacious ban-queting-rooms, hewn in the solid tory burch outlet rock, and extending five or six hundred feet into the bowels of the mountain; the the walls, ceilings, and pillars, tory burch shoes covered with symbolicalrepresentations, resembling an endless picture-gallery. The Palace of Rameses, otherwise called the Memno-nium, and sometimes the Tomb of Osymandyas, deserves, perhaps, the first rank among the monuments of Thebes, The portals, with which it was furnished, and on which may still be made out many military representations, are nearly destroyed, and the waters of the river, which year by year undermine their bases at the time of the inundation, must succeed tory burch flats at length in utterly destroying them. ' Among its ruins are to be seen the fragment of the lossal statue of Barneses, the most prodigious production of the statuary art. The monarch, in a sitting posture, was chiseled, as well as his seat, out of a single block of ros$ granite of extraordinary beauty, and it is said that at this day the Arabs take fragments of it to Cairo, where they are used to supply the place of diamonds in glass-cutting. A vast hall, adorned with columns, affords one of the most perfect models remaining of Egyptian architecture. The roof is supported by two tory burch sale rows of pillars, whose capitals, fashioned to represent the lotus flower, are executed in a style of great purity.