TRAVELS 



IN 



UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT. 



CHAP. I. 



SERVING AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK. 



Motives which induce travellers to publish their dis- 

 coveries — The delay of this publication accounted 

 for — Embarrassment which the traveller has to en- 

 counter who is in haste to write — Travellers — 

 Hasselquitz — Savary — Prodigious changes which 

 the French are effecting in Egypt. 



It is rather late to enter on a career which ought 

 long ago to have been accomplished. It must 

 appear very extraordinary to deter to the seventh 

 year of the French Republic the publication of 

 travels which terminated in the year 1780. No 

 traveller surely ever advanced so slowly to meet 

 the public eye. Others, on the contrary, almost to 

 a man, discover an ardour of impatience, on their 

 return, to communicate the knowledge of their 

 labours and of their discoveries. This zeal, 

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