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Excerpt from A New Sea and an Old Land: Being Papers Suggested by a Visit to Egypt at the End of 1869
When, in the autumn of 1869, I was invited to visit Egypt, to witness the opening of the Suez Canal, I took account of what I knew of the Old Land. Hitherto I had fancied that my knowledge, though not profound, was tolerably accurate and extensive: examination proved to my chagrin how confused and imperfect it was. So at once I set to work, attempt ing to verify and supplement unsettled ideas, in the hope to escape even yet the reproach of ignorance when I should mingle with the well-informed world who would ?ock to the fetes. Arrived in Egypt, great was my surprise to find that hardly anybody was conversant with her past or present, and that my scanty reading enabled me to speak with some con fidence on the subject - nay, that I was sometimes referred to as an authority. Seeing this, it was, I hope, no presumption to imagine that there were many in the world who might desire to be taken so far as even I could take them toward a knowledge of Egypt; and hence originated the papers in this volume which treat of history and antiquities.
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