he had only some poles, and some ropes of palm leaves-and palm-leaf ropes, made ever so strong, would not be able to support such a weight. I think he had better have contrived a car, somewhat like that the African sheep has to rest its tail upon, in "Church's Cabinet," and by this means he might have brought it to the Nile, and then had it placed in a boat, and conveyed to Cairo.

MRS. A.-No bad scheme, my little boy! Belzoni's whole set of implements consisted of fourteen poles, eight of which he did employ in making a car, similar to what you have proposed; four ropes of palm leaves, and four rollers-they were better than wheels; and he now began to be very busy.

EMILY. As the bust was some way from the Nile, it would have been too far for them to go to sleep in the boat every night. How did they manage about that ?

MRS. A. A small hut was formed for them of stones, among the ruins of the temple.

BERNARD. They were handsomely lodged, however, mamma! But perhaps this little hut might be as comfortable as the shabby old house at Boolac, which they were always expecting to fall upon their heads, and both our travellers are used to put up with inconvenient things.

Well, mother, now for the bust !

MRS. A. The season at which time the Nile

usually overflows was fast approaching, and all the lands which extend from the temple to the water side would have been covered in the course of a month.

BERNARD.-Then I advise Mr. Belzoni to wait till that time, and then to put his head in a boat, and row, row it away!

MRS. A.-No such easy matter. The ground between the bust and the river was very uneven, so that unless it had been conveyed over those places before the inundation commenced, it would have been impossible to have effected it. Belzoni, therefore, lost no time. With some difficulty he procured a number of men, and agreed to give them thirty paras a-day, which is equal to fourpence halfpenny English money, if they would undertake to assist him. A carpenter made a car, somewhat like that which supports the tail of your African sheep, Bernard, only so very large, and the first operation was to place the bust upon this simple carriage. The people of Gournou, who were familiar with Caphany, as they named it, were persuaded that it could never be removed from the spot where it lay, and when they saw, what to them appeared so impossible, they set up a shout, and could not believe that it was the effect of their own efforts. The next thing was to place it on the car. Can you guess how Belzoni managed this business ?

BERNARD.-I fancy, mamma, that he bound the palm-leaf ropes round and round Caphany very fast, and very firmly, and then the men tried and tried, until they had lifted him up, and placed him upon it.

MRS. A.-Ah, my little friend! you do not evince much knowledge of the mechanical powers, or you could not suppose that this image would be moved by mere personal strength. Now,

Owen, what is your opinion?

OWEN. I should think, mamma, that by means of levers, the bust might be raised so as to leave a vacancy under it, and then the car might be introduced by some of the people, who were standing ready. After Caphany had been lodged on this, the car itself might be raised so as to get one of the rollers beneath, and if the same operation were performed at the back, he would be ready to be pulled up:--and then, if you please, Bernard, your palm-leaf ropes may come in use, to tie him to the carriage, and draw him along.

MRS. A.--Well, Owen, I am pleased with your conjecture. This is the very method Belzoni pursued, and when he had succeeded in getting it removed some yards from its original place, he sent an Arab to Cairo, with the intelligence that the bust had begun its journey to England. Our ingenious friend reminds me of a remark made by a celebrated writer, "that it is by small efforts frequently repeated, that man completes his greatest undertaking, to have attempted which, at one effort, would have baffled his ability," for he had still many difficulties to encounter. When the Arabs found that they received money for the removal of a stone, they fancied that it was filled with gold in the inside, and that a thing of such value ought not to be permitted to be taken away.

However, the next day, and the next, and the next, Caphany advanced slowly forwards, and after many delays, owing to the softness of the sand, and to the desertion of some of the workmen, the fear of an inundation. &c., Belzoni had the gratification of seeing his young Memnon arrive on the banks of the Nile.

EMILY. It is quite true as you say, mamma, that perseverance is generally crowned with success. But it yet remains to put the colossus in a boat; it has a long, long way to go down the Nile before it arrives at Cairo, and I expect Belzoni intends to stop there, to show it to Mahomed Ali.

MRS. A. He intends doing so, but no boat is to be had. We must therefore leave the bust where it is for the present, and accompany him, if you please, into one of the caves that are scattered about the mountains of Gournou, and are so celebrated for the quantities of mummies they contain; he wished to see a famous sarcophagus which was in one of them, and thither he went. You know what mummies are.

OWEN.-Mummies are the bodies of dead persons, which have been wrapped up in a great many bandages to preserve them, and a sarcophagus is a sort of tomb or coffin.

MRS. A.-Two Arabs and an interpreter accompanied Belzoni. Previous to entering the cave, they took off the greater part of their clothes, and each having a candle, advanced through a cavity in the rock, which extended a considerable length in the mountain, sometimes high, sometimes very narrow, and sometimes so low, that Belzoni and his attendants were obliged to creep on their hands and knees. Thus they went on till he perceived that they were at a great distance from the entrance, and the way was so intricate that he depended entirely on the two Arabs to conduct him out again

OWEN.-I do not envy his situation now, mamma -you know Arabs are sometimes treacherous. MRS. A.-At length they arrived at a large