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UPPER EGYPTCHAPTER I.FOUR DAYS IN A COUNTRY TOWN.FIRST DAY.We are standing upon a mound of rubbish entirely destitute of vegetation, above us the deep blue cloudless vault of heaven ; a gentle north wind guards us from being scorched by the glowing rays of a vertical sun; so dry and transparent is the atmosphere that the eye can wander unimpeded to the distant horizon, and take in every detail of the surrounding landscape. Verdant crops, interspersed at intervals by groves of palm-trees, clothe the level valley that stretches away towards the north ; and through it a large river pursues its winding course, lendinor moisture and fertilization to the arid soil. Eastwards and westwards the green valley is bounded—the line of separation being sharply defined—by the bare, yellowish-gray desert, which sometimes loses itself in gently rising plateaus over which the eye cannot reach, sometimes terminates suddenly in precipitous rocky hills.At our feet lies a confused and labyrinthine collection of houses forming a considerable town. The houses, built of crude unburnt bricks, are mostly one story high, flat-roofed pierced with few apertures for light, and often growing narrower towards the

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Author

C. B. Klunzinger, Georg Schweinfurth

Publisher

Scribner, Armstrong & Co.

Published

1878

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Middle East Travel