Letters on Egypt, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, the Present State, the Commerce, the ... of the Descent of St. Lewis at Damietta - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Letters on Egypt, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, the Present State, the Commerce, the Agriculture, and Government of That Country; And an Account of the Descent of St. Lewis at Damietta

I préfurrie to th'ink,-'that I have experi enéed as to render travels in terefiin'g; but the public mufl judge Of the execution. Should the reader of thefe let ters accompany me 'with pleafure fhould he be firuck with the accuracy Of the de fcriptions, and derive infirué'cion from the geographical and h'iftorical details; fhould the membrablev events I recall to his remem brance appear 'to Him to be judicioufly dif fpdfed tuld the fpa'rallel of 'ancient and modern manners feem to be traced with judgment m'y wifhes 'will be fulfilled, sand'iffhall-efieem the fatigues, the dangers, the labours, I -'have undergone, ou 'ly as a'fubje'ét Of confolation.

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