32).

The Nile washed part of it away some years ago; but at the beginning of the present century it formed an irregular quadrilateral enclosure, measuring some 2,100 feet in length, by about a quarter less in breadth.

The south front is constructed on the same principles as the wall at Kom es Sultan, the bricks being bedded in alternate horizontal and concave sections.

Along the north and west fronts they are laid in undulating layers from end to end.

The thickness is thirty-eight feet, and the average height thirty feet; and spacious ramps lead up to the walk upon the walls.