Show EGYPTIAN PROGRESS binl off nic egypt is not at a standstill it is moving fatter for bettor or for worse than it moved before ami this is true 0 its antiquities as well as of other things the ancient cities arc bring in tho present day dug away and their earth spread on the ground aa a fertilizer fertiliser liser nal aliis is going on at such a aliat some have almost entirely disappeared already and of corn have taken their pl others aro diminished mini shed to liala the aizo sizo they were a generation or two back and arc still diminishing crary day and alic time docs not seem very far distant alion 1 frinc of city will be to bo identified certainly egypt will huo exhausted its an ti rinty lionila before england cx itai coal and up the nilo tombs aro opened every year and fewer left 0 o be discovered in ono sense we anro only juat beginning to explore egypt ind lie to us inexhaustible but that is ony be canso of alio puny giaui of our attack from tho ado in another and terrible true sense egypt is exhausting itself the natives arc ceaselessly digging and we look to it pretty alio llio history of tho country will have perished before our acs by alio activity of its never before has that land of monuments bani so fiercely worked on daily and hourly the spona of ages past are ransacked and it of marketable arc carried but whether preserved or not is of small matter compared with the entire loin of connection and history which always results in this way if w c aro nut to incur lie chirt o of posterity for our vandalism and in ertem we must be up and doing in the right way illustrated laganne Ma ganne |