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Photograph is printed in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Jeremiah, xlvi:19.) 'O thou daughter dwelling
in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph (Memphis) shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.' Rameses
II. was the 'king who knew not Joseph.' We see him now in limestone lying prostrate amid the ruins of the city he enriched
and oppressed. The first in her glory, he is the last in her desolation. The prophecy is literally true. 'Memphis shall be
without an inhabitant.' The companions of the once proud Rameses the Second now are the jackals, whose wierd howl lends a
melancholy interest to the solemn moan of the palms, the only sentinels left to guard the proud Egyptian king. Tall, rank
weeds grow about his mighty form, and lean their dying heads upon his cold and bloodless bosom. He is so quiet and harmless
in his limestone form that the lizards play hide and seek on the surface of his vast face." "Franklin Co Eng-Chi" is printed
at the bottom of the photograph. See 5128BAI/LVi46CAJS (Voyager # 357546)
Horizontal statue of Rameses II amidst palm trees
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