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An Egyptian oasis

LITERATURE ON THE OASIS OF KHARGA

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Poncet, M.

1709. “A Voyage to Æthiopia, made in the Years 1698, 1699, and 1700.” (Translated from the French.) Printed for W. Lewis at the Dolphin, next Tom’s Coffee House, in Russel Street, Covent Garden, London, 1709.

Browne, W. G.

1806. “Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798.” Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1806.

Cailliaud, F.

1822. “Travels in the Oasis of Thebes, and in the Deserts situated East and West of the Thebaid, in the Years 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1818.” (Translated from the French, and published in New Voyages and Travels, vol. vii.) Sir Richard Phillips and Co., London, 1822.

Drovetti, M. the Chevalier.

1822. “Itinerary of an Excursion to the Valley of Dakel,” by M. the Chevalier Drovetti, French Consul-General in Egypt, about the latter end of 1818, with a previous Itinerary from Syout to Dongolah and Darfour. In New Voyages and Travels, vol. vii. Sir Richard Phillips and Co., London, 1822.

Edmonstone, Sir Archibald, Bart.

1822. “A Journey to Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt.” John Murray, London, 1822.

Cailliaud, F.

1826. “Voyage a Méroé, au Fleuve Blanc, au delà de Fâzogl dans le Midi du Royaume de Sennâr, a Syouah et dans cinq autres Oasis; fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821, et 1822.” L’imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1826.

Wilkinson, I. G.

1835. “Topography of Thebes and General View of Egypt.” John Murray, London, 1835.

Hoskins, G. A.

1837. “Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert.” Longman, Rees, Orme and Co., London, 1837.

Schweinfurth, Dr. G.

1875. “Notizen zur Kenntniss der Oase El-Chargeh” (I. Alterthümer). Petermann’s Mittheilungen, 21 Band, 1875. Justus Perthes, Gotha, 1875.

Rohlfs, Gerhard.

1875. “Drei Monate in der Libyschen Wüste.” Mit Beiträgen von P. Ascherson, W. Jordan, und K. Zittel. Theodor Fischer, Cassel, 1875.

Jordan, Dr. W.

1876. “Physische Geographie und Meteorologie der Libyschen Wüste.” Rohlfs’schen Expedition. Theodor Fischer, Cassel, 1876.

Brugsch, Dr. Heinrich.

1878. “Reise nach dem grossen Oase el Khargeh in der Libyschen Wüste.”

“A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs.” John Murray, London, 1881.

Zittel, K. von.

1883. “Beiträge zur Geologie und Palæontologie der Libyschen Wüste.” Rohlfs’schen Expedition. Theodor Fischer, Cassel, 1883.

Lyons, Captain H. G.

1894. “Notes sur le Géographie Physique des Oasis de Khargueh et de Dakhel.” Bull. Soc. Khéd. de Géogr., iv. série, No. 4, 1894.

“On the Stratigraphy and Physiography of the Libyan Desert of Egypt.” Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 1., London, 1894.

Barron, Beadnell, Lucas, and Hume, Messrs.

1900. “The Phosphate Deposits of Egypt.” Survey Department, Cairo, 1900 and 1905.

Ball, Dr. John.

1900. “Kharga Oasis: its Topography and Geology.” Survey Department, Cairo, 1900.

Guest, A R.

1900. “The Oases of the Mudirieh of Assyut.” The Geographical Journal, vol. xvi., London, 1900.

Beadnell, H. J. Llewellyn.

1904. “The Oases and the Geology of Egypt,” in “The Nile in 1904,” by Sir William Willcocks. E. and F. N. Spon, London, 1904.

Sayce, Professor A. H.

1905. “History of the Egyptian Oases.” The Egyptian Gazette, April 6, 1905.

Beadnell, H. J. Llewellyn.

1908. “Flowing Wells and Sub-Surface Water in Kharga Oasis.” Geological Magazine, N.S., Decade V., vol. v., February—March, 1908.

Lyons, Captain H. G.

1908. “Some Unsolved Problems of the Nile Basin.” The Cairo Scientific Journal, vol. ii., No. 18, March, 1908.

Hume, Dr. W. F.

1908. “The South-Western Desert of Egypt.” The Cairo Scientific Journal, vol. ii., Nos. 23 and 24, August—September, 1908.

Beadnell, H. J. Llewellyn.

1909. “The Mutual Interference of Artesian Wells.” Geological Magazine, N.S., Decade V., vol. vi., January, 1909.

“The Relations of the Nubian Sandstone and the Crystalline Rocks south of the Oasis of Kharga.” Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. lxv., London, 1909.

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