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PREFACE.
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cheerful and valuable assistance which these gen-
tlemen invariably afforded me. The public will
be enabled, in some degree, to estimate the extent
of my obligations by the excellence of their works;
and I beg to assure them, that I shall ever remem-
ber with pleasure the time spent with them at
the Pyramids.
It is with regret I allude to the unpleasant
detail, which the dishonourable accusations made
in the name of M. Caviglia against Colonel Camp-
bell and myself have rendered indispensable ; but
in doing so I think it particularly necessary to
mention, in reference to that gentleman's opinion,
that I never experienced any interruption, or even
had reason to suspect the slightest hostility on the
part of the French, or of any other persons, whilst
I was engaged at the Pyramids.
Could I have obtained a direct order from the
Pasha to enforce the constant attendance of a
sufficient number of people, my intention was to
have excavated the entire area round the Sphinx,
which appears, at least on the western and south-
ern sides, to have been enclosed by a peribolus of
unburnt bricks ; but my application was not for-
warded to the Pasha: and, from the immense
quantity and the looseness of the sand to be
VOL. I, 1)
XVII
cheerful and valuable assistance which these gen-
tlemen invariably afforded me. The public will
be enabled, in some degree, to estimate the extent
of my obligations by the excellence of their works;
and I beg to assure them, that I shall ever remem-
ber with pleasure the time spent with them at
the Pyramids.
It is with regret I allude to the unpleasant
detail, which the dishonourable accusations made
in the name of M. Caviglia against Colonel Camp-
bell and myself have rendered indispensable ; but
in doing so I think it particularly necessary to
mention, in reference to that gentleman's opinion,
that I never experienced any interruption, or even
had reason to suspect the slightest hostility on the
part of the French, or of any other persons, whilst
I was engaged at the Pyramids.
Could I have obtained a direct order from the
Pasha to enforce the constant attendance of a
sufficient number of people, my intention was to
have excavated the entire area round the Sphinx,
which appears, at least on the western and south-
ern sides, to have been enclosed by a peribolus of
unburnt bricks ; but my application was not for-
warded to the Pasha: and, from the immense
quantity and the looseness of the sand to be
VOL. I, 1)