This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...a dull appearance outside, as all the windows face the interior court yards. Not far from this town are the celebrated pyramids, of which the great one is 461 feet in height, and have stood above 3000 years. Alexandria (40,000 inh.), the ancient capital of Egypt, tinder the Ptolemies and the Romans, was for a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...a dull appearance outside, as all the windows face the interior court yards. Not far from this town are the celebrated pyramids, of which the great one is 461 feet in height, and have stood above 3000 years. Alexandria (40,000 inh.), the ancient capital of Egypt, tinder the Ptolemies and the Romans, was for a long time the entrepot of the commerce of.the East and West. This town contained at one time 900,000 inhabitants: it was filled with magnificent monuments, and possessed the richest library of antiquity. Euclid was born here. The other principal towns are: Damietta, Eosetta, Siout, Girgeh, Suez, Aroukib, Cosseib, Syena or Assouan, and Syouah. ZAABA OE GEAND DESEET. Abea And Population.--Area, 2,500,000 square miles. Population, 1,000,000. Histoby.--The interior of this country has never been well known. It is occupied by tribes of Moors, whom travellers describe as possessing not a sentiment of humanity. They live under tents, in the oases; men and domestic animals remain under the same shelter. These barbarous people are not wanting in industry; they have their goldsmiths, ambulatory jewellers, and weavers, that work with great industry. Their religion is Mahometanism. General Description.--Zaara is a vast ocean of sand and gravel, very little more elevated than the level of the sea, interspersed with pebbly hillocks and some oases. The dryness of the desert is so great, that a traveller may proceed for a hundred leagues without finding any water, and, if he loses his way, soon perishes from fatigue and thirst. When the sand is raised by a violent wind, it resembles the waves of an agitated sea; it rises in mountains, covers the springs, wells, and even rivers: and thus have whole caravans been entirely lost. A few date and other palm trees...
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