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Egypt ' ; although Egmont and Heyman had pub- 
lished their notice of them twenty years before 
Savary began the account of his travels in the 
country-. These Ruins had altogether escaped 
their observation. They said that their re- 
searches had always been restricted to the march 
of their army, and therefore, in Lower Egypt, had 
been principally confined to the western side of 
the Nile ; that they had heard of the ruins at 
S'el Hojtir, but did not conceive them to be so 
considerable as we had found them. Being 
asked whether any of them had seen the 
interior of an Egyptian sepulchre, containing 
mummies, before the position of the bodies 
had been disturbed by the Arabs, they an- 
s\vered in the negative. With this information 
we took our leave of them, accompanied by 
one of the younger Members of the Institute, 
who kindly offered to accompany us to the 
Catacombs of Necropolis, lying westward 
o{ Alexandria. These we were now desirous 
to examine. 
Among all the antiquities of this once cele- crypttc 
brated city, which after the destruction of polis!^*^"^ 
(1) See S«?flr/s Letters on £'5i(/>t', vi.l. II. Lett. 73. L-^nd. \1%6. 
(2; Snvary'^ first Letter is dated Ju^;/ '.'4, 1T77. 
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