i KURRU AND ZUMA ignorance," i.e., before the time of Muhammad the Prophet, and in its profile some EngHshmen have seen representations of the features of certain prominent British statesmen. As CaiUiaud says, however, the form of this rock is due to a freak of nature, and is purely accidental.' A town of some size stood on the east ro Metres PLAN OF TEMPLE (A) AT GEBEL BARKAL.

[ From Lepsius, Denkn.dler, Abth. I. Bl. 127, side of the mountain, but the shape and material of the fragments of bricks found there, and the fragments of pottery, do not suggest that it was pre-Christian. On the west side are two groups of pyramids, one group being on the slope, and the A view of it will be found in Cailiiaud's volume of plates (i. 58).