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The Monuments of Rameses The: Paris

A mingled surface of earth and sand nearly as spacious as the modern area of Paris, traversed by a river the width of which at its period of lowest ebb is thrice that of the Seine at St. Cloud, and rolls along its broad undulations beneath a blazing sky, its stream studded with the shafts of columns, blocks of granite and broken scraps of walls whose * The prophet Nahum, ch. iii., verses 8 and 9. fallen fragments have formed hillocks there, mutilated colossi, sphinxes and gigantic rams nearly all headless now-emblems of the Kings and gods of ancient times!