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AND LOWER EGYPT. IC>
waves roll by the very foot of the houses, give it
from afar a pleasing appearance. The French
merchants at Cairo had a country-house there, on
the very brink of the Nile, and to this they fre-
quently resorted for the purpose of breathing a
pure air, instead Gf those infectious exhalations
among which they habitually lived, and to enjoy
a respite from that turbulent existence ..which dis-
turbed their minds in the city. Gizah brings
back the recollection of mighty objects. Mem-
phis was in its vicinity, and it is still the nearest
place to the most valuable monuments which an-
cient Egypt has left of her glory and her power.
The pyramids are at the distance of about two or
three leagues from it, and they bear indiscrimi-
nately the name of the Pyramids of Memphis, or the
Pyramids of Gizah,
waves roll by the very foot of the houses, give it
from afar a pleasing appearance. The French
merchants at Cairo had a country-house there, on
the very brink of the Nile, and to this they fre-
quently resorted for the purpose of breathing a
pure air, instead Gf those infectious exhalations
among which they habitually lived, and to enjoy
a respite from that turbulent existence ..which dis-
turbed their minds in the city. Gizah brings
back the recollection of mighty objects. Mem-
phis was in its vicinity, and it is still the nearest
place to the most valuable monuments which an-
cient Egypt has left of her glory and her power.
The pyramids are at the distance of about two or
three leagues from it, and they bear indiscrimi-
nately the name of the Pyramids of Memphis, or the
Pyramids of Gizah,