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Letters on Egypt, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing, a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, Its Commerce, Agriculture, Government ... Extracted From Joinville, and Arabian Authors - Hardcover

Savary, Claude-Étienne

 
9780365519232: Letters on Egypt, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing, a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, Its Commerce, Agriculture, Government ... Extracted From Joinville, and Arabian Authors

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Excerpt from Letters on Egypt, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing, a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, Its Commerce, Agriculture, Government and Religion; With the Descent of Louis IX. At Damietta; Extracted From Joinville, and Arabian Authors

Our calculation of the weight of the gra nite, in the note, Vol. II. Page 375, difi'ers from that of M. Savary 5 but if, infiead of al lowing with him the fides to be fixty feet high, fix feet are deducted for the thicknefs of the ceiling, which was of another (tone, the pro duct then will be nearly the fame 5 and this de duction, we imagine, the author made, it is not fo cxprefi'cd.

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