Letters on Egypt: Containing, a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, Its Commerce, Agriculture, Government and Religion; with the Descent of Louis IX at Damietta. Extracted from Joinville, and Arabian Authors, Volume 2G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787 - Egypt |
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... most of the lands are poffeffed by independent Arabs . Those who inhabit the mountains , to the east of Girga , pay no tribute , but grant an asylum to all malecontents ; nay , often embrace their cause , and furnish them with arms to ...
... most of the lands are poffeffed by independent Arabs . Those who inhabit the mountains , to the east of Girga , pay no tribute , but grant an asylum to all malecontents ; nay , often embrace their cause , and furnish them with arms to ...
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... most delightful shades . Were nature and art com- bined , charming gardens might be formed , at a final expence ; for this happy climate poffeffes a fruitful foil , water in abundance , the moft odoriferous fhrubs , and a fky the moft ...
... most delightful shades . Were nature and art com- bined , charming gardens might be formed , at a final expence ; for this happy climate poffeffes a fruitful foil , water in abundance , the moft odoriferous fhrubs , and a fky the moft ...
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... most dangerous of animals . Other men , thinking him the moft pernicious , " avoid him ; the Tentyrites , on the con- 66 66 trary , eagerly hunt for and kill him , " wherever they can find him . The Pfylli " of Cyrene are known to ...
... most dangerous of animals . Other men , thinking him the moft pernicious , " avoid him ; the Tentyrites , on the con- 66 66 trary , eagerly hunt for and kill him , " wherever they can find him . The Pfylli " of Cyrene are known to ...
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... most flourishing city of Yemen , and traded both with India and Egypt . Golius and other writers have faid the ruins of Thebes were at Cous . This was an error . on Egypt , and appointed a Pacha , who , C 3 on ON EGY PT . 21.
... most flourishing city of Yemen , and traded both with India and Egypt . Golius and other writers have faid the ruins of Thebes were at Cous . This was an error . on Egypt , and appointed a Pacha , who , C 3 on ON EGY PT . 21.
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... most delicious the earth contains . These , Sir , are not chimerical projects . The fituation of Egypt is the most advantageous man can imagine : it com- municates with the eaftern and the western ocean . Nature has been profufely kind ...
... most delicious the earth contains . These , Sir , are not chimerical projects . The fituation of Egypt is the most advantageous man can imagine : it com- municates with the eaftern and the western ocean . Nature has been profufely kind ...
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Abou Dahab adored againſt alfo alſo Ammon ancient Anubis Arabs becauſe Beys called cauſe confecrated Copts defcend defcribed deferts deity deſtroyed Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Egyp Egypt Egyptians eſtabliſhed Ethiopia facred faid fame fands fays fecond feems fent feven fhall fide fignifies figns fince firft firſt foldiers fome foon ftatue ftill ftone fubject fuch fuppofed fupport furrounded fymbol Girga Greeks Herodotus hieroglyphics himſelf hiſtory honour Horus houſe Ifide et Ofiride Ifis increaſe inhabitants inundation Jablonski Jupiter LETTER LETTER M. L. M. Grand Cairo Mamluks Manetho meaſure Memnon moft Moon moſt muſt Neith Nile Nilometer obferved occafioned Ofiris Pacha paffage paffed Phtha Plutarch poffeffed prefent preferved prieſts Ptolemy raiſed Red Sea reprefented rife ruins ſcience Serapis ſhall Sheik Daher Sheik El Balad ſhip ſhould ſtate ſtatue ſtill Strabo Syria temple Thebes thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Thoth thouſand Typhon veffels waters whofe winds
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