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Excerpt from Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor: During the Years ON zthe 14th of August, 1816, Hon. Charles Leonard Irby and. James Mangles, Commanders in the Royal Navy, left Eng, land, With the intention of making a tour on the continent. This journey they were led to extend far beyond the original design. Curiosity at first, and an increasing admira tion of antiquities as they advanced, carried them at length through several parts of the Levant, .which have been little ivisited by modern travellers, and gave them, more than four years of continued employment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.