Ipsambul

The most remarkable of the temples erected by Rameses is the building at Thebes, once called the Memnonium, but now commonly known as the Rameseum; and the extraordinary rock temple of Ipsambul, or Abu-Simbel, the most magnificent specimen of its class which the world contains.

To the same period as the temples of Thebes belong those of very similar general design hewn out of the sides of the mountains of Nubia, of which the best example is the larger of the two at Ipsambul, specially noteworthy for the huge seated figure of the monarch for whom it was built, the great Rameses II, guarding the entrance to it.

Division of the subject—Imbedding of organic remains in deposits on emerged land—Growth of peat—Site of ancient forests in Europe now occupied by peat—Bog iron-ore—Preservation of animal substances in peat—Miring of quadrupeds—Bursting of the Solway moss—Great Dismal Swamp—Imbedding of organic bodies and human remains in blown sand—Moving sands of African deserts—De Luc on their recent origin—Buried temple of Ipsambul—Dried carcases in the sands—Towns overwhelmed by sand-floods—Imbedding of organic and other remains in volcanic formations on the land.

The sand which surrounded and filled the great temple of Ipsambul, first discovered by 727 Burckhardt, and afterwards partially uncovered by Belzoni and Beechey, was so fine as to resemble a fluid when put in motion.

Capt., upheaval of Bay of Conception, 500.——, on drifting of canoes, 662.——, on temple of Ipsambul, 727.——, on coral islands, 780, 782, 787.——, on changes of level in Pacific, 788.——, on dead coral in Elizabeth Island, 794.Beila, in India, mud volcanoes, 449.Belcher,