...mighty city : — " Not all proud Thebes' unrivalled walls contain, The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain ; That spreads her conquests o'er a...cars, From each wide portal issuing to the wars." It is singular, however, that no remains either of gates or walls have been found, after diligent search....

...empress on th' Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroin through a hundred gates; Two hundred horsemen and...hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to the wars." Something perhaps must be allowed for poetic fiction; but judging from the extent of the ruins which...