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ROBERT HAY, ESQ.
more carefully on*their return; but before this
comes about they have lost their taste for travel,
and discouraged by the heat of the weather or by
sickness, they beat a speedy retreat, after having
paid a hasty visit to the places considered most
worthy of remark, in order to be able to say on
some future day that they have been there. Ano-
ther disadvantage under which these gentlemen
labour is, that they do not always know how to
choose their interpreters, a circumstance upon
which mainly depend the correct or erroneous
ideas which they may form of the places through
which they travel.
Four months are at least necessary to allow a
traveller to examine at his leisure and with atten-
tion the most remarkable spots in Egypt. The
only traveller who can boast with reason of having
seen and examined with scrupulous attention an
infinite quantity of the beautiful objects in this
region, is Mr. Robert Hay, and yet he confesses
that notwithstanding all the days, during several
successive years, in which he has been continually
meeting with new curiosities, and continually dis-
covering on the tombs in Thebes designs which
were previously unknown to him, he still doubts
whether he has collected materials sufficient to
ROBERT HAY, ESQ.
more carefully on*their return; but before this
comes about they have lost their taste for travel,
and discouraged by the heat of the weather or by
sickness, they beat a speedy retreat, after having
paid a hasty visit to the places considered most
worthy of remark, in order to be able to say on
some future day that they have been there. Ano-
ther disadvantage under which these gentlemen
labour is, that they do not always know how to
choose their interpreters, a circumstance upon
which mainly depend the correct or erroneous
ideas which they may form of the places through
which they travel.
Four months are at least necessary to allow a
traveller to examine at his leisure and with atten-
tion the most remarkable spots in Egypt. The
only traveller who can boast with reason of having
seen and examined with scrupulous attention an
infinite quantity of the beautiful objects in this
region, is Mr. Robert Hay, and yet he confesses
that notwithstanding all the days, during several
successive years, in which he has been continually
meeting with new curiosities, and continually dis-
covering on the tombs in Thebes designs which
were previously unknown to him, he still doubts
whether he has collected materials sufficient to