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\ N hour's ride from Cairo carries
^ us back through the lone vista
of history to the earliest monuments
of civilised man. We leave the
mosque of 'Amr, the oldest building
of Cairo, which has yet seen only
twelve centuries pass since its founda-
tion, and we stand before the Pyramids
r i i • i t 1 j 1 VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE GREAT PYRAMID.
OI LilZeh, Which have looked down Looking southwards towards the Pyramids of Sakkarah and Dahshur.
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^ us back through the lone vista
of history to the earliest monuments
of civilised man. We leave the
mosque of 'Amr, the oldest building
of Cairo, which has yet seen only
twelve centuries pass since its founda-
tion, and we stand before the Pyramids
r i i • i t 1 j 1 VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE GREAT PYRAMID.
OI LilZeh, Which have looked down Looking southwards towards the Pyramids of Sakkarah and Dahshur.
113