Excerpt from Below the Cataracts
This book is the record of a painter who has spent some years of study and of work in the Nile valley. He has pondered long over the strange beauty of the Egyptian monuments; and if, either by illustration or description, he now succeeds in aiding others to an appreciation of the wonder and the mystery of these remains of a most ancient civilisation, and of the picturesqueness of life in Egypt to-day, he will not have painted nor written in vain.
The limits of space do not permit him to include in this volume all the interesting buildings of medi?val Cairo and of Pharaonic Egypt ; and the temples of Esneh, Edfou and Kom Ombo, though also situated below the first cataract, have been omitted, as it is intended to include them in a second volume, which will treat chiefly of the monuments above Thebes.
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