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There are, however, two scrapings evidently alphabetic, and probably Nabathaan, which are offered to the specialists in epigraphy: six appear in Wellsted's illustration, especially that with a long line above it, near the left and lower corner of the cut. M. Lacaze and I copied the most striking features in our carnets; he taking the right or southern side and leaving the other block to me.
Two pair of spectacles were duly despatched to him after our return to Cairo; and M. Lacaze there exhibited a capital sketch of the picturesque, white-bearded face, with the straight features and the nutcracker chin, deep buried in the folds of a huge red shawl. The son, Sulayman, has been espoused to a cousin older, they say, than himself; and he seems in no hurry to conclude the marriage.
Such are the "Pins" which name the mountain; and which, concealed from the coast, make so curious a show to the north, south, and east of this petrified glacier. After breaking their fast, M.M. Clarke, Lacaze, and Philipin volunteered to climb the tempting Col.
While I strolled about the waiting room, conversing with M. Villemain about Cracow, the Vienna treaties and the frontier of the Rhine, I could hear the buzzing of the groups around me, and scraps of conversation reached my ears. BARON PEDRE LACAZE. He is getting old. VISCOUNT CAVAIGNAC. Sixty-nine years! MARQUIS DR RAIGECOURT. Who is the dean of the Chamber of Peers at present?
M. Lacaze brought back several Alpine plants, a small Helix which he had found near the summit, and copious scrawls for future croquis his studies of the "Pins" and the "Dome" were greatly admired at Cairo. Ere the glooms of night had set in, we found ourselves once more at the tents. Only one man suffered from the ascent, and his sunstroke was treated in Egyptian fashion.
Le calice de cette pretendue fleur est le corps meme de l'animal avance et sorti hors de la cellule."* * This extract from Peyssonel's manuscript is given by M. Lacaze Duthiers in his valuable Histoire Naturelle du Corail . The comparison of the flowers of the coral to a "petite ortie," or "little nettle," is perfectly just, but needs explanation.
The sight delighted us; and M. Lacaze here made one of his most effective croquis, showing the explorers reduced to the size of ants. As yet we had seen nothing of the kind; nor shall we see a similar vein till we reach Abu'l-Marwah, near our farthest southern point.
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