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Excerpt from Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, Vol. 1: With an Account of a Voyage Into Upper Egypt, and an Appendix Abstracts from various authors antient and modern, who have treated of the Pyramids, are inserted in 'the Appendix: for those taken from Arabian writers I am indebted to the labours of Dr. Sprenger. A few other subjects are, likewise. 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.