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Excerpt from Modern Egypt and Thebes, Vol. 2 of 2: Being a Description of Egypt; Including the Information Required for Travellers in That Country Mizraim', the son of Ham, hadfour sons, Oshmoon, Athreeb, Sn, and Copt. The last of these peopled the country be tween Asouan and Coptos; Oshmoon that to the north, as far as Menoof t (memphis); Athreeb the Delta; and Sa the province of Bahayreh, as well as the land of Barbary. Copt, however, having conquered the mt of Egypt, became sove reign of the whole country, and gave it his name. 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.