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Excerpt from Qurneh The expression of the plan is by assuming a top left-hand shadow, as from an afternoon sun in the south-west. The cliff lines facing east and north are then in deep shadow, shewn here by thick contours. In looking at the map it should be imagined as a relief model in layers, lighted from the top left. The stream lines, or valley bottoms, are marked by arrows. The whole structure may be called a horse-shoe basin draining to the east, with a great peak on each side of it. The southern peak is the well-known point above the Theban cemetery; the northern peak is two miles away, that of Sankh-ka-ra. Up the middle of the horse-shoe is a ridge dividing it in two, and up this ridge runs the road to the high desert plateau, a short cut to Farshut, thirty-six miles distant. On the west the tableland is cut off by a great valley about four miles wide, which runs in from the Birket Habu northward; and the Far shut road turns north and skirts round the head of this valley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.