Warburton, Eliot: Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land, or, The crescent and the cross: comprising the romance and realities of eastern travel (Philadelphia, 1859)

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THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. [chap, xxnr

Besides Meroe, there are magnificent ruins, and some pyra-
mids at El Birkel, Solib, and Semneh, within twenty days' jour-
ney from Assouan.

After these slight prospective and retrospective digressions, I
return to my tour.