Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . -14° lower than that of the surrounding air.— These vessels, indudini thi large jars with handles, chiefly manufactured at Jialii: in Opper Egypt, are brought down from Dppe*Bgypts in rafts, consisting of thousands of them tied together bj the bandies and with llirir mouths covered. Continuing to follow the road across the rubbish-hills of Iostat,which we have just left, we observe on our right a Muslim burial-ground, and at a short distance in front of us the old aqueduct. Alittle to the rig
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . -14° lower than that of the surrounding air.— These vessels, indudini thi large jars with handles, chiefly manufactured at Jialii: in Opper Egypt, are brought down from Dppe*Bgypts in rafts, consisting of thousands of them tied together bj the bandies and with llirir mouths covered. Continuing to follow the road across the rubbish-hills of Iostat,which we have just left, we observe on our right a Muslim burial-ground, and at a short distance in front of us the old aqueduct. Alittle to the right, on an eminence, rises an old ruined mosque(G&m? AbH Suud). beyond it is the Citadel with the mosque Ali. and farther distant arc the hills of the MokattamI |>. 335). This view is very strikinsr towards sunset. The road, which becomes had beyond this point, leads roundthe ruined mosque and ascends heaps of debris. < ?) stands. Tombs of the Mamelukes. (Names l& Tomjli Hai<jm Sullar. Butui
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