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 THE PASSAGE UP THE NILE.-Who has nn, voyaged on the Rhme, and, as he glided down that noble river, tell absorbing interest In the busy ci ties and calm solitues the vineyards and fortress es; the castled crags where the banners of old hIs tory are still visible to the imaginative eye; and the deep glens, where turks many a legend believed by the imaginative heart; all following in succession uninterrupted and more rapid than the thought that strives 10 follow! Imag me, then, river, flow ing from tIie undiscovered depths of Africa, wider, larger. migh fer far. whose sh res are lined with ci- ties and temples that were already in ruins when the sources of the Rhine were as unknown as are now the sources of the Nile. For a distance oi eight hundred miles you glide along this sacred and mys terious stream not wb he rapid rush oi the steam vessel, but lranquiily and thougnifuly, as in Veni iian gondol. under the shade oi the African palm, and among the lotus lilies of Egyptian mythology, tanned by airs redolen of perfumes rare even m our luxurious drawing rooms. On the desert sands the giraffe and the gazelle grnz ng; on e banks the crocodile is basking; the pelican IS gl,dlng by you and the ibis h mounds oi bufi'd cities. .

 "with pa'e white wing,

 Like phantJms OCT a grave. Here, you pass column. or propylon' sole rem nant of some city, once more populous ihan tl" whole surrounding lonely region now there, somt mud built walls show where the modern Egyptian dwels, in himself as widely differing from his prede- cessors, probably, does his clayey shed from ther magnificent elifces You afe irasersing the same that has bo'ne the Egyp ian, the thioPian the As syI ian the Per sian, tae Roman, and the Saracen; aud between lbe stream pf tjwe which memory tr"-