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Cairo, were not seen nor heard. Twice large birds sailed high 

 above our heads. This is the total of animal life met with in my 

 four weeks' journey, excepting camels, goats, one lamb (which 

 Ave ate), one donkey (at Tor), a dozen cats (at the Monastery), 

 several Bedouins, two Russian ladies, two German philologists, 

 two Irish theologians, three enterprising Americans, and twen- 

 ty-nine lazy monks. 



Note. — The specimens exhibited included: — syenite, chalcedony, num- 

 mulitic and compact limestone, Gizeh ; alluvium from banks of Nile 

 above Luxor ; salt conglomerate, Thebes ; syenite, quarries of Syene ; 

 limestone, Wadi Bab-el-Molook ; fossil wood (phonolite) from near 

 Cairo. Also from the Peninsula of Sinai : — chalk, snowy gypsum, 

 selenite and sculptured pebbles, Wadi Amara ; red porphyry, "Wadi 

 Rahabah ; turquoises, red and green porphyry, Wadi Feiran ; gravel 

 and sand from surface of Wadi El Ahatta ; silicious iron concretions, 

 Nakb-el-Budra; fossiliferous sandstone, Jebel Hammam Mousa; granite, 

 quartz crystals, dendrite, Jebel Mousa (Sinai); red coral and coral 

 limestone. Gulf of Suez near Tor; white sandstone, amorphous quartz, 

 Jebel Nagous ; winnowed sand and pebbles, plain at the foot of Jebel 

 Nagous ; gypsum and conglomerate, Ojrut Ramadan ; and a collection 

 of blown sands from manj^ localities in Egypt and Arabia Petrtea. The 

 lantern views from original photographs comprised scenes on the Nile, 

 views of the cliffs, Wadi Bab-el-Molook, quarries of Syene, granite 

 hills near Philae, Wilderness of Shur, Wadi Tayyibeh, blown sand on 

 Ojrut Ramadan and El GTia, Wadi Es-Sleh, and the Esbekiyeh Gardens, 

 Cairo. 



