NILE SCENERY. 73 left at Dufli, but, contracted to 400 or 500 yards in breadth, it rushed like a mill-race through the narrow gorge, foaming and roaring over its rocky channel. The scenery here was superb. On the eastern side of the river lofty hills rose steeply from its brink to a height of 900 feet, studded here and there with native villages, which looked mere specks on the mountain-side. Beneath was the rushins river, often a mass of foam as it broke over some opposing ridge of rock ; while here and there huge boulders, raising their heads above the water as if in protest against its violence, or little verdant islands, gave a pleasing variety to the scene. On the western side low hills separated the mountain-range from the valley of the Xile, and between them and the river there is a narrow strip of level ground, often covered with beautiful soft turf, and dotted with tall and stately doleb-palms. At times, however, the hills came sheer down to the water's edge, and we had then to scramble along a narrow ledge of rock, with the river boiling and hissing beneath our feet. Through this enchanting country we marched to " small Lahore, a little station at the junction of Khor Aio with the Nile. This is a lovely spot, surrounded by splendid woods, the green of some banana-groves forming a pleasant contrast to the darker shades of the other trees. Gebel Madi Locquoir is seen towering up some 2600 feet above the river.