The Pyramids at Cairo. Plate 24.

THIS view is also taken from the gate of the Citadel, and is nearly a continuation of the same scene, but higher up the Nile. The houses of the inferior order at Cairo, are built of mud, and have been so from the earliest times, consequently an ancient town is only marked by heaps of rubbish from the walls being dissolved. This is the case of Old Cairo, which stood chiefly to the south of the Aqueduct. An incredible quantity of pottery is mixed in these heaps, or rather hills of rubbish. The Mekias and the island of Rhoda covered with sycamore trees, are in the centre of the view; beyond it, to the foot of the hill on which the Pyramids of Gheeza stand, the inundation is shewn as it appears when at the highest. The numerous minarets are each belonging to a small mosque, attached generally to the tomb of a Mussulmaun saint