TRAVELS
IN
UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT'-
UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER. OF
THE OLD GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE;
BY
C. S. S0NN1NT,
ENGINEER IN THE FRENCH NAVY, AND MEMBER OF SEVERAL
SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY SOCIETIES.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY ENGRAVINGS ;
CONSISTING OF
Portraits, Views, Plans, a Geographical Chart, Antiquities,
Plants, Animals, &c.
Drawn on the Spot, under the Author's Inspection.
*.......^TolGrantia rerum
Spernebat cunctae insuperata minas.
Venice nudato, ventos pluviasque ferebam.
Non mihi solstitium, non grave frigus erat.
Quamvisexiguo poteram requiescere somno,
Et quamvis modico membra fovere cibo.
Corn. GaUus, Epig. 1. Senect. Descr.
Translated from the French,
BY HENRY HUNTER, D. D.
NEW EDITION.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALEj PICCADILLY.
1807.
IN
UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT'-
UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER. OF
THE OLD GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE;
BY
C. S. S0NN1NT,
ENGINEER IN THE FRENCH NAVY, AND MEMBER OF SEVERAL
SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY SOCIETIES.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY ENGRAVINGS ;
CONSISTING OF
Portraits, Views, Plans, a Geographical Chart, Antiquities,
Plants, Animals, &c.
Drawn on the Spot, under the Author's Inspection.
*.......^TolGrantia rerum
Spernebat cunctae insuperata minas.
Venice nudato, ventos pluviasque ferebam.
Non mihi solstitium, non grave frigus erat.
Quamvisexiguo poteram requiescere somno,
Et quamvis modico membra fovere cibo.
Corn. GaUus, Epig. 1. Senect. Descr.
Translated from the French,
BY HENRY HUNTER, D. D.
NEW EDITION.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALEj PICCADILLY.
1807.