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Page 9
... omit in the long and narrow strip that stretches from Cairo to the Second
Cataract . By far the greatest number are content to go no farther south than
Assuan , even though thereby one is forced to miss the famous rock - temple of
Abu Simbel ...
... omit in the long and narrow strip that stretches from Cairo to the Second
Cataract . By far the greatest number are content to go no farther south than
Assuan , even though thereby one is forced to miss the famous rock - temple of
Abu Simbel ...
Page 38
The path is narrow and steep , walled in on either hand by barrack - rooms and
by the living rock out of which the ascent is chiseled . DESERT ìîÊÀÒ ÒÀÌ
TOMBS OF THE CALIPHS WINDMILL MILLS MOSQUE 38 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
The path is narrow and steep , walled in on either hand by barrack - rooms and
by the living rock out of which the ascent is chiseled . DESERT ìîÊÀÒ ÒÀÌ
TOMBS OF THE CALIPHS WINDMILL MILLS MOSQUE 38 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
Page 54
It lies to one side of the long street of Mohammed Ali just below the sharp rise of
the Citadel , and its commanding situation on a shelving rock makes it a notable
monument in any general view of the city . Time and the occasional earthquake ...
It lies to one side of the long street of Mohammed Ali just below the sharp rise of
the Citadel , and its commanding situation on a shelving rock makes it a notable
monument in any general view of the city . Time and the occasional earthquake ...
Page 72
You might as well go to Plymouth and omit visiting the Rock , or Agra and miss
the Taj , or Athens and ignore the Acropolis . A sacred bird in his native land is
the shoe - bill , and he looks as if he knew it . He is the most grotesque creature in
...
You might as well go to Plymouth and omit visiting the Rock , or Agra and miss
the Taj , or Athens and ignore the Acropolis . A sacred bird in his native land is
the shoe - bill , and he looks as if he knew it . He is the most grotesque creature in
...
Page 102
... come to be even more essential than ever in order that the tomb be not
despoiled . And to the end that no man should know the spot of the king ' s
sepulchre it was hollowed out of the bare and rugged rocks of a deep , secluded
valley on the ...
... come to be even more essential than ever in order that the tomb be not
despoiled . And to the end that no man should know the spot of the king ' s
sepulchre it was hollowed out of the bare and rugged rocks of a deep , secluded
valley on 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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