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principles and practices innumerable. I amused 

 myself with making a collection of them, not only 

 in Egypt, but likewise in Greece, where I resided 

 a considerable time, and enjoyed very particular 

 opportunities of completing my collection. Cer- 

 tain European ladies have sometimes courted me 

 to open it in their favour: but I check myself; 

 this is not the place for making such communica- 

 tions, and the book of a traveller ought not to 

 degenerate into a course of cosmetics. 



