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Excerpt from The Land of the Monuments: Notes of Egyptian Travel HE serial publication of papers entitled, Notes of a Visit to Egypt, has led to numerous and repeated requests that an extended account should be published, including the voyage up the Nile to Wady Halfah and the Second Cataract, with notices of the monuments of Ancient Egypt. The present volume has, therefore, been compiled, and is offered with the earnest hope that The Land of the Monu ments may meet with the same kind approval which was accorded to the Notes of a Visit to Egypt. A few illustrations have been introduced from original sketches taken from time to time during the voyage by my daughter. I have no knowledge of Arabic as a language, and wherever Arabic words occur they are rendered phonetically. I desire to express my thanks to Dr. W. Wright for writing the introduction to this volume; to Dr. W. Robertson Nicoll, Rev. G. Wilson, Mr. R. 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.