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Excerpt from Three Days in Memphis: Or Sketches of the Public and Private Life of the Old Egyptians
Almost every one who in former as well as at later periods has visited this land of wonders, has felt it necessary to pub lish his observations and experience in travels. Why should not the same privilege be allowed to him whose dreams of a brief period have carried him back thousands of years, while they exhibit to him in his earnest research of the old monu ments a picture of the Ancient Capital of the land of the Pharaohs long since buried beneath its ruins. Large books have indeed been written during the last few years respecting one and another branch of Egyptian public and private life; but they are intelligible and accessible to but few, on account of their learned character as well as their great extent and cost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
