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Title: Journal of the late campaign in Egypt: including descriptions of that country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; with an appendix; containing official papers and documents
Year: 1803 (1800s)
Authors: Walsh, Thomas, fl. 1801
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Publisher: London T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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our, hadheeu placed on the table; of most of which, thoughnot very palatable, I tasted; we got up, and hadonce more recourse to pipes and coffee. Duringthe whole repast, our only drink was sherbetor water. We then attended his highness to a delightfulretreat, on the borders of the canal. The watercame up within a few inches of the windows ofthe apartment. Two or three boats, filled withmusicians, rowed about, and in the evening somevery tolerable fireworks were exhibited At nineoclock we took our leave, fully satisfied with thedays amusement, and quite overwhelmed withthe viziers extreme kindness and attention. We went back to Gizeh by the canal, whichruns through Cairo, and which was then full. September the 11th. Having procured boats, and every other neces-sary article for the excursion, we left Gizeh im-mediately after breakfast to visit the pyramids.Oar way to them was through a canal, filledby the overflowing of the Nile, and the daybeing extremely fine and pleasant rendered the
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3 « E X P E I> 1 T I O N T O E G Y P t. 249 jaunt very agreeable. A little after ten oclockwe left the boats, having* been about two hoarson the way. The distance we calculated at nearlytwelve miles. The country was almost all under water, and fromthe spot where we landed ve had about a mileto walk, over a heavy sand, to the great pyramid.As we approached these most ancient and astonish-ing of all antiquities, we were surprised not tofind their bulk increase in appearance ; and, whatwas still more extraordinary, when at the distanceof two hundred yards, the stones, with which theyare built, seemed to our eyes no larger than com-mon bricks : but when we arrived at the foot ofthe first pyramid, which is the largest, we werestruck with astonishment, and could not butwonder at the immense labour and expense,with which these admirable monuments musthave been raised. Those stones, which at soshort a distance had appeared so small, were nowtransformed into masses four feet square, and tw

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