ATBARA FORT visited the little XVIIIth Dynasty temple on the western bank of the river, a few miles south of the camp, and he showed me a number of his excellent plans of the temples, churches, &c , which are found on both banks of the Nile between Philae and Haifa. These plans are the most accurate and comprehensive of any yet made, and they throw a great deal of new light upon the architectural knowledge and methods of the ancient Egyptians, and of their Christian descendants, the Copts. Mr. Somers ATBARA FORT.

In the foresrouiid is Captain Swabey, the Commandant.

Clarke's exhaustive examinations of the remains of the Coptic churches so far south as Semna are most important, and when he has worked out his results we shall be able to understand for what uses many portions of these buildings were employed, and the peculiarities of churches in monasteries and nunneries as opposed to churches in villages and towns. He has done for the churches of Nubia what Waddington did for the churches of Syria, and it is to be hoped that his monograph on the subject will soon appear.

From Aswan to Luxor I travelled by the narrow-gauge railway 283