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Excerpt from The New York Obelisk Cleopartra's Needle: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks Chapter VIII. Egypt: its geographical di visions and its cities. 84 Upper Egypt. 84-90. Lower Egypt. 90-92. 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.