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TRAVELS
IN
UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT.
CHAP. I.
serving as an introduction to the work.
Motives which induce travellers to publish their 'dis-
coveries—The delay of this publication accounted
for—Embarrassment which the traveller has to en-
counter who is in haste to write—Travellers—
Hasselquitz—Savary—Prodigious changes which
the French are effecting in Egypt.
It is rather late to enter on a career which ought
long ago to have been accomplished. It must
appear very extraordinary to defer to the seventh
year of the French Republic the publication of
travels which terminated in the year 1780. No
traveller surely ever advanced so slowly to meet
the public eye. Others, on the contrary, almost to
a man, discover an ardour of impatience, on their
return, to communicate the knowledge of their
labours and of their discoveries, This zeal,
vol. 1. b highly
IN
UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT.
CHAP. I.
serving as an introduction to the work.
Motives which induce travellers to publish their 'dis-
coveries—The delay of this publication accounted
for—Embarrassment which the traveller has to en-
counter who is in haste to write—Travellers—
Hasselquitz—Savary—Prodigious changes which
the French are effecting in Egypt.
It is rather late to enter on a career which ought
long ago to have been accomplished. It must
appear very extraordinary to defer to the seventh
year of the French Republic the publication of
travels which terminated in the year 1780. No
traveller surely ever advanced so slowly to meet
the public eye. Others, on the contrary, almost to
a man, discover an ardour of impatience, on their
return, to communicate the knowledge of their
labours and of their discoveries, This zeal,
vol. 1. b highly