3-074-554 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Termination of the Arabian Mountain Range on the right bank of the Nile near Edfou, 1883. 'Proceeding further up the Nile, the tourist comes to El Kab, which has remains of a fort and three temples. Here the mountains seen on the right bank of the river, looking towards the Red Sea and Arabia, which are often called in Egypt "The Arabian Range," seem to approach their termination. Sandstone hills and cliffs, with many loose scattered blocks, and sometimes excavated into quarries or caverns, are close to each bank, leaving a breadth of 350 yards only at the place called Gebel-as-Silsileh, a little way above Edfou. The traveller ascending the Nile is then approaching near to Assouan, to the celebrated Isle and Temple of Philoe, and to the First Cataract, of which we may speak on a future occasion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.