]38 
MR. HORNER ON THE ALLUVIAL LAND OF EGYPT. 
during' the last year in a series of seventy-two pits sunk across the valley, in the 
parallel of Ileliopolis, from the Libyan to the Arabian chain of hills. For this great 
extension of the inquiry I am indebted to the unabated liberality of the Viceroy ; to 
the continued warm interest taken in it by Mr. Murray, so long as he remained in 
the country, followed up as it has been, with equal zeal, by our present Consul- 
General in Egypt, the Honourable Frederick Bruce ; and to the untiring energy of 
my very able coadjutor, Hekekyan Bey. 
