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SCENES

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,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

Abr 3978, 25

Harvard Clee Library

July 1, 1914. Bequest of Georgina Lowell Putnam

LONDON:

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.

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

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