AND

IMPRESSIONS

IN

EGYPT

AND IN ITALY.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

SKETCHES OF INDIA, AND RECOLLECTIONS

OF THE PENINSULA.

Third Edition.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

Col. G.M. Shever.

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1825.

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PREFACE.

THE ground over which I would conduct my reader, has been trodden, and described by a hundred travellers, and is, for all the useful purposes of description, as well known, perhaps, as any road or province in our native country.

I address not the scholar, the man of science, the artist, or the general reader of large information.

My humble aim is to give the aspect of what I saw, and the impression it produced, for the gratification of those mental