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Title: Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ntains; and overhead the whiteclouds raced by. The sea washed up in a lineof white breakers on to a rising bar of sand, spark-ling with a thousand varieties of shells. Behindthis bar there were pools of water passing inland,and here there may have been an artificial harbour.On the south side of the bay bold rocks jutted intothe sea, and on the north there rose a series ofmounds upon which the remains of the old townwere strewn. Walking over these mounds, wherethe rhythmic roar of the waves falls continuouslyupon the ears, ones mind was filled with thoughtsof the ancient port which has so utterly fallen, andof that ancient commerce with the East which musthave been so full of adventure and romance to themen of old. Here from these mounds the towns-people have watched the great galleys set out overthe seas for the mysterious land of Hind, and haveseen the wealth of Pount and Arabia unloadedupon the quay ; and here so many centuries laterthe labours of Egyptologists are beginning to per-
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The interior of the mosque at Kossair. — Page 78.

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