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Excerpt from Egypt, Vol. 2: Handbook for Travellers; Upper Egypt, With Nubia as Far as the Second Cataract and the Western Oases The practical introduction to the first volume, and the sections on the geography, history, and art of Egypt, there published, apply of course also to the districts of Upper Egypt. The special introduction to the present volume deals chiey with the Nile voyage and the necessary preparations for it, preceded by a brief survey of the chief steamer - routes between Egypt and Europe and a note on the new Egyptian monetary system, introduced since the publication of the Handbook to Lower Egypt. A list of works on Egypt is added, and, to obviate the necessity of too frequent re ferences to the first volume also a chronological list of the rulers of Egypt down to the close of the Ptolemaic period, and aselection from the royal cartouches of most frequent occurrence in Upper Egypt. Finally the Arabic Alphabet is given, showing the system of transliteration adopted in this Handbook. 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.