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PREFACE.
After a residence of eighteen years at Thebes,
entirely devoted to its objects of antiquity, I
arrived in this country for the purpose of giving
my assistance in the disposal of the collection of
Egyptian Antiquities, formed by me, under the
direction of the late Henry Salt, Esq. and in
which I had with his executors an equal interest.
In the advertisement of the sale catalogue of
that collection it was stated, that previous to the
sale by public auction, I would publish a brief
account of some few of the most interesting
researches that I had made during my long sojourn
in Egypt. It may be, therefore, necessary for
me to explain the cause of this work not having
previously made its appearance. I would in the
After a residence of eighteen years at Thebes,
entirely devoted to its objects of antiquity, I
arrived in this country for the purpose of giving
my assistance in the disposal of the collection of
Egyptian Antiquities, formed by me, under the
direction of the late Henry Salt, Esq. and in
which I had with his executors an equal interest.
In the advertisement of the sale catalogue of
that collection it was stated, that previous to the
sale by public auction, I would publish a brief
account of some few of the most interesting
researches that I had made during my long sojourn
in Egypt. It may be, therefore, necessary for
me to explain the cause of this work not having
previously made its appearance. I would in the