IN

UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT:

UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF

THE OLD GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE;

BY

C. S. SONNINI,

ENGINEER IN THE FRENCH NAVY, AND MEMBER OF SEVERAL
SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY SOCIETIES.

ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY ENGRAVINGS;

CONSISTING OF

Portraits, Views, Plans, a Geographical Chart, Antiquities,
Plants, Animals, &c.

Drawn on the Spot, under the Author's Inspection.

Tolerantia rerum

Spernebat cunctas insuperata minas.
Vertice nudato, ventos pluviasque ferebam.
Non mihi solstitium, non grave frigus erat.

Quamvis exiguo poteram requiescere somno,
Et quamvis modico membra fovere cibo.

Corn. Gallus, Epig. 1. Senect. Descr.

Translated from the French,

BY HENRY HUNTER, D. D.

NEW EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY.

1807.