Petrie, William M. Flinders: Ten years' digging in Egypt: 1881 - 1891 (London, 1892)

PREFACE

Although the discoveries which are related in
this volume have been already published, yet there is
to be considered the large number of readers who
feed in the intermediate regions between the arid
highlands and mountain ascents of scientific memoirs,
and the lush—not to say rank—marsh-meadows of
the novel and literature of amusement.

Those, then, who wish to grasp the substance of
the results, without the precision of the details, are
the public for whom this i§. written ; and I trust that,
out of consideration for their feelings, hardly a single
measurement or rigid statement can be found here
from cover to cover. Any one who wants detail can
find it in the various annual volumes which have
already appeared. Several of the finest objects found
appear here, however, for the first time in illustration ;
for having been kept in Egypt I only had photographs
to work from, which were, as yet, unused.

The work described here is not by any means all
that has occupied my time in these years; much
exploring has also been done, and dozens of ancient