and water-fowl. Finally, fruits are presented to the master and his friends, and the whole concludes with offerings of gratitude to the gods. In another part of the scene is the flax harvest. The whole process of pulling the crop up by the roots, of carrying it away in small bundles and combing it, is very ingeniously represented. It may be observed that the complexion of the men is invariably red, that of the women yellow; but neither of them can be said to have any thing in their physiognomy at all resembling the negro countenance. The labourers are dressed in a sort of skull-cap, and in short close drawers, having very little hair on their heads; while the locks of the others who appear to superintend them spread out at the sides, after the fashion of the Nubians and Berberi above the Cataracts. Next follow representations of ship-building and sailing, with all the machinery which belonged to their simple navigation. Nor are the amusements of the fowler forgotten, which seem to have consisted in the use of a net and a variety of other snares. The bow and arrow appear to have been also employed. The scene, after embracing a great number of occupations or pastimes, to which we cannot make a more particular allusion, closes with a funeral procession, into which all the pageantry and magnificence of Egyptian ceremonial are introduced, accompanied with the several emblems which were employed of old to denote the duties of this life and the hopes of the next.* Leaving the instructive grottos of Eleithias, we |