A Visit to Cairo

Alexandria amid ancient appearance Arab architecture ascend Atfeh Athribis beauty Bedowee Arabs Benton boat boatmen Cairo called canal Canea capital character chief Christian Church citadel column Copts Crete Crusé Damiatic branch date-palms desert Diocletian distance earth edifice Egyptian feet granite Greek hand Harbour height Heliopolis Ibrahim inhabitants island Joseph Julius Cæsar Kafr Zaït Kalif kind land of Egypt land of Goshen lions look Lord Mahometan Mansoureh March Mehmet Memphis mile minarets modern monuments morning mosque Nadir never Nile obelisks Pasha passage passed Patriarch Pharaoh Pharos pillar plagues of Egypt Pompey port present Principe Metternich Ptolemies Ptolemy Philadelphus Pyramids race racter Raïs relics right bank river ruins Samanoul sands Saracen scene Scio seemed Sphaxians spot square stream streets temple Terraneh Thebes thee thou tian tion to-day traveller Turkish Turks turn unto Upper Egypt vestige village walls wandering