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• #? On Easter Monday We Left Our House,...
5 From Marengo , we paid a visit to Typaza , an old ruined town _> . builtin-the second century . The ruins cover many miles of land ;
there Christian , _are church many hundred on the ed stone of coffin a cliff s > and close the to ruins the of sea an . earl Thi & y
place is very impressive ; but ge as we are to write about African menwe must leave this old merchant townand go on to that
pyramid wo , which we see built on the hill across the , Bay of Typaza , ; called the _^ Tomb of the Queen .
, We , or rather our horses , scrambled up the steep rocky hill on which stands the " _Kxibbar-el-Rurnmiah" the tomb of the Christian
, or Roman , as the Arabs call it ; or the _" Tombeau de la Reine , " the Tomb of the ; Queenas the Erench call it ; or the •• " Treasure of
, the Sugar Loaf , " as the Turks call it . It is the great landmark off the Sahel ; it ; has the sea to the north , the 3 Lake Alula to the soiith _,
the _, In plain the distance being bounded it has b the y the appearance Atlas . of a pyramid , but it is a
cone placed on a cylinder , formerly surrounded by columns like the circular temple of Vesperat Rome . I should guess the columns te »
_> have been a fourth the height of the whole . Blakesley says , " It is a truncated cone on a cylindrical base , built of fine limestone . "
Shaw estimated the diameter of the base at ninety feet , and the heiht of the monument at 100 . -
I g should guess the diameter to be above 100 feet , the circumference , therefore , more than 300 feet . Wagner says , "It is a
cirfor cular circumference building of ) about " surrounded 500 feet in by diameter 1 Tuscan columns " ( this must and be surmounted a mistake *
by a pyramid of , thirty-two steps of granite ; the , top has been destroyedprobably by treasure seekers . The Kubbar-el-Rummiah _.
, may be the sepulchral monument of the old Numidian kings _^ , whichaccording to Poxnponius Melawas situated between Julia .
, , it Cesarea to have ( Cherchelle been the ) tomb and Icosium of Cava ( , Al the giers daug ) . hter Some of authors Count Julian believe , '
who had invited the * Arabs to Spain , and whose sepulchre was . erected in this neighbourhood ( according to Marmol ) . This lonely ,
large monument made a considerable impression on the Arab mind _£ built and all it ? the and n about atives the hav treasures e some traditions it is supposed about to the hide fair . ' queen who
Dr . Wagner saw this monument more than twenty years ago , and : asserts that it is surrounded by Tuscan columns . I , who saw it the
other day , did not see one Tuscan column surrounding it , and the onlcolumns we saw were scattered and shatteredlying with huge
blocks y of stone around the monument ) particularl , y on the north sideand the capital I . examinedof immense size , for the supposed
heig , ht of the shaft , was hot pure , Tuscan ; it was decorated with the a _^ ose-like orn ament , as well as the Tuscan curl .
, There were four false doors to this tomb , opposite the north , south , eastand westexactly ; .
Mr ,, . Berbrugger , , the Director of the Museum at Algiers , has pulled-¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ - ¦/
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/50/
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