LIN ANT BT3Y. 155 has broken the immense masses and thrown them confusedly together. Kussegger noticed that the structure of the primitive strata of Assouan was exactly similar to that of Northern Lapland. The varieties of landscape, in different climates, depend therefore upon the difference of vegetation and of atmospheric effect, rather than that of geological forms, which always preserve their identity. Dr. Kane also found in the bleak hills of Greenland the same structure which he had observed in the Ghauts of tropical India.

After three or four miles of this travel the pass opened upon the Nile, just above the Cataract. At the termination of the portage is a Nubian village, whose plantations of doum and date-palms and acacias are dazzling in their greenness, from contrast with the bleak pyramids of rock and the tawny drifts of the Lybian sands on the western bank. Vfe rode clown to the port, where a dozen trading vessels lay at anchor, and took a large boat for Phike. The Governor of Assouan was there, and His Excellency showed me the vessel he had engaged for me — a small and rather old daliabiyeh, but the best to be had. The price was one hundred and fifty piastres for the trip — about one hundred and twenty miles — besides something for the men. Achmet attributed this moderate demand to the effect of a timely present, which had been delicately conveyed into the Governor's" hands the night before. There was a tall gentleman, in the official Egyptian costume, in company with the Governor. Achmet said he was a French engineer in the service of Abbas Pasha, and I afterwards learned that he was none other than M. Linant, or Linant Bey, whose name is so well known* through his connection with the exploration of Petra, and of the antiquities in Ethio-