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DESCRIPTION OP THE MONUMENTS.
The railway which connects Cairo with Alex-
andria has reduced the latter city to a mere
station on the route to Egypt from Marseilles,
from Brindisi, from Trieste, or from Southamp-
ton. Travellers seldom stop now at Alex-
andria, and the real Egyptian journey com-
mences at Cairo.
People visit Egypt because Egypt is the
East, because Egypt is one of those illustrious
countries which every man of refined culture
feels it incumbent upon him to visit; but trav-
ellers would certainly be far less numerous if
beyond Cairo there were not the still greater
attraction of the glorious ruins of Upper
Egypt.
Some travellers pass the first Cataract and
proceed as far as W&dy-Halfa. But the greater
number stop at Assouan, and we also shall make
C86]
The railway which connects Cairo with Alex-
andria has reduced the latter city to a mere
station on the route to Egypt from Marseilles,
from Brindisi, from Trieste, or from Southamp-
ton. Travellers seldom stop now at Alex-
andria, and the real Egyptian journey com-
mences at Cairo.
People visit Egypt because Egypt is the
East, because Egypt is one of those illustrious
countries which every man of refined culture
feels it incumbent upon him to visit; but trav-
ellers would certainly be far less numerous if
beyond Cairo there were not the still greater
attraction of the glorious ruins of Upper
Egypt.
Some travellers pass the first Cataract and
proceed as far as W&dy-Halfa. But the greater
number stop at Assouan, and we also shall make
C86]