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and could not well be condensed into a form calculated for a 

 Journal like our own. 



The inquiry into the fate of Dr. Seetzen, was made at Mokha, 

 where he met his death, and the letter sent to Mr. Burckhardt 

 from thence, containing the result of these inquiries, was trans- 

 mitted to Vienna for the information of his illustrious patrons, 

 the Emperor Alexander and the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and was 

 afterwards inserted in the Mines De V Orient, a work published 

 at the Austrian capital. As we possess this notice in its original 

 form, and the Mines De VOrient is a work not in general cir- 

 culation, we shall incorporate with it such other notices as we 

 possess of the travels of Dr. Seetzen, and present them to our 

 readers, with the account of the Ismayles, both of which were 

 drawn up from very authentic sources, and may therefore, after 

 having served the purposes of private friendship, be found wor- 

 thy of being more generally known. 



To return to the subject of this memoir. He journied 

 from Mecca to Medineh as he intended, and the writer of the 

 Journal quoted, received an exceedingly interesting letter from 

 him while in that city of Arabia, dated from beside the Prophet's 

 Tomb, and descriptive of the town and the holy wonders it con- 

 tained. The original of this letter has been sent to England, and 

 the copy of it mislaid. From Medineh he intended to have gone 

 by Arabia Petrcea, and round the Gulf of Aila, by Eloth and 

 Ezion Gaber, of the Scriptures, into Egypt, but this project was 

 defeated by the appearance of the plague at Medineh, which in- 

 duced him to come down to Yambo on the sea coast, and em. 

 bark from thence for Suez. After a short stay in Cairo he 

 made his last excursion from thence to Mount Sinai, and the 

 Desert of Wandering, as those wastes around Horeb are gene- 

 rally called. His journal of this interesting tour has reached 

 England. It is interspersed, with a variety of historical notices 

 on the former state of the country, and annexed to it is a memoir 

 of the wanderings of the Israelites on their departure from the 

 land of Pharaoh. 



From this period Mr. Burckhardt remained in Cairo until the 



