Excerpt from Rambles in Egypt and Candia, Vol. 1 of 2: With Details of the Military Power and Resources of Those Countries, and Observations on the Government, Policy, and Commercial System of Mohammed Ali Whilst, therefore, the following pages will be found to contain but little to arrest the at tention of the antiquary or savant; yet, finding it impossible to leave the stupendous works of the ancients altogether unnoticed; I have, at the risk of wearying my readers with an oft-told tale, ventured on a brief description of those that came under my observation and, in some few instances - when struck by any omission or inaccuracy in preceding writers have even been induced to enter into a some what detailed account of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.