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Page 8
The reason is that , with the unimportant exception of certain unfrequented oases
and the broad open plains of the Delta , Egypt is nothing but an attenuated ribbon
of vivid green , winding down for something like a thousand miles through an ...
The reason is that , with the unimportant exception of certain unfrequented oases
and the broad open plains of the Delta , Egypt is nothing but an attenuated ribbon
of vivid green , winding down for something like a thousand miles through an ...
Page 30
Wherefore we tugged and tossed at anchor some five miles offshore until late
afternoon , when a tiny tug rolled perilously through the trough of the seas , and
after a hair - raising struggle , succeeded in putting a pilot aboard . By the time
the ...
Wherefore we tugged and tossed at anchor some five miles offshore until late
afternoon , when a tiny tug rolled perilously through the trough of the seas , and
after a hair - raising struggle , succeeded in putting a pilot aboard . By the time
the ...
Page 37
It runs north and south , roughly parallel with the river , but a good mile from it . It
is the great centre of activity for all travelers . In it are the principal shops .
Through it passes every visitor in town every day of his stay . Four important
streets lead ...
It runs north and south , roughly parallel with the river , but a good mile from it . It
is the great centre of activity for all travelers . In it are the principal shops .
Through it passes every visitor in town every day of his stay . Four important
streets lead ...
Page 43
One must travel something like a mile eastward from the river before reaching the
distinctively Oriental portion of Cairo . The part of the city that lies close to the Nile
, excepting only the hamlet of Boulac , is thoroughly Europeanized . Its streets ...
One must travel something like a mile eastward from the river before reaching the
distinctively Oriental portion of Cairo . The part of the city that lies close to the Nile
, excepting only the hamlet of Boulac , is thoroughly Europeanized . Its streets ...
Page 67
The actual division of the river into its two great branches , the Rosetta and
Damietta , lies something like fourteen miles below the city in the neighborhood
of the first of the great barrages . But roughly speaking , the capital city marks the
point ...
The actual division of the river into its two great branches , the Rosetta and
Damietta , lies something like fourteen miles below the city in the neighborhood
of the first of the great barrages . But roughly speaking , the capital city marks the
point ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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