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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 57at Assuan, was large, enough to enable me to lay my bedcross-ways at the stem : four men composed the crew: amat, arched on some palm-branches, served for a screenagainst the sun.jEarly in the morning of the 12th we sailed up the river;and, in consequence of the wind failing, moored at Ser Ali,on the east bank, where rocks, barren hills, and crocodileswere, the only objects of remark. About half-way betweenSer Ali and Philae, on the west bank, are the remains of atemple, in a village called Deboo, and, by Norden, Debood^.On the cultivated spots, in the neighbourhood, were manysheep and cows, with plantations of palm-trees.I was detained the 13th at Ser Ali by Kamseen winds,which set in with an obscure sky, the sun becoming pale, asseen through a discoloured glass; but,, on the 14th, arrivedat Gartaas, called by Norden Hindau, on the west bank;where I landed, to examine the architectural ruins, of whichthere are many at intervals for the space of nearly two miles.The first and most southern is a square enclosure of masonry,of one hundred and fifty-three paces each side; its greatestheight sixteen feet, though in many places much less; itsthickness about ten feet. The east side is almost destroyed.In the interior are smaller enclosures of stone, and foundationsfor others. In the south and north sides there are gateways: that in the north is nearly in the centre, higher thanΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ