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Page 8
On the contrary , it is highly interesting to watch as it sweeps in resistless billows
of dust from the river cliffs and whirls across the waters and the narrow plain . It is
scarcely more depressing than its bloodbrother , the scirocco ; and is it not one ...
On the contrary , it is highly interesting to watch as it sweeps in resistless billows
of dust from the river cliffs and whirls across the waters and the narrow plain . It is
scarcely more depressing than its bloodbrother , the scirocco ; and is it not one ...
Page 9
But apart from these , the visitor will have practically no alternatives save such as
are presented by a limited choice of means in going up the river , and by the
determination of what sights he will see and what omit in the long and narrow
strip ...
But apart from these , the visitor will have practically no alternatives save such as
are presented by a limited choice of means in going up the river , and by the
determination of what sights he will see and what omit in the long and narrow
strip ...
Page 13
Relieved of that perplexity , and secure in the knowledge that one could no more
be lost in Egypt than in a long and narrow corridor , the visitor is likely to suffer
from no greater annoyance than that which arises from the flies in late spring and
...
Relieved of that perplexity , and secure in the knowledge that one could no more
be lost in Egypt than in a long and narrow corridor , the visitor is likely to suffer
from no greater annoyance than that which arises from the flies in late spring and
...
Page 30
Smaller vessels ventured in and out through the narrow jaws of the breakwater ,
but for our steamer of many thousand tons no such hazard was deemed
advisable . Wherefore we tugged and tossed at anchor some five miles offshore
until late ...
Smaller vessels ventured in and out through the narrow jaws of the breakwater ,
but for our steamer of many thousand tons no such hazard was deemed
advisable . Wherefore we tugged and tossed at anchor some five miles offshore
until late ...
Page 37
Passing along the southerly side of the Ezbekiyeh Gardens in quite the opposite
direction - toward the east — is a narrow highway which conducts one to the
central tram station , from which busy square diverge two other streets that the ...
Passing along the southerly side of the Ezbekiyeh Gardens in quite the opposite
direction - toward the east — is a narrow highway which conducts one to the
central tram station , from which busy square diverge two other streets that the ...
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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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