Incidents of travel in Egypt - Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land

"Alexandria.—Pompey's Pillar.—The Catacombs.—The Warwick Vase.—The Pacha's Canal.—Boats of the Nile.
ON the afternoon of the December, 1835,
after a passage of five days from Malta, I was perched up in the rigging of an English schooner, spyglass in hand, and earnestly looking for the "Land of Egypt." The(...)"