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Excerpt from A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Vol. 1 of 2: Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &C I have much pleasure in acknowledging the kind assistance of Mr. Burton and Mr. Pettigrew while writing the accompanying volumes, to the former of whom I am indebted for the Plates 85 and 86. 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.