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NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN EGYPT,
WITH A SOJOURN
AMONG THE ARTISTS IN ROME.
By SAMUEL BEVAN.
LONDON: CHARLES GILPIN, 5, BISHOPSGATE STREET, WITHOUT.
MDCCCXLIX.
LONDON: RICHARD BARRETT, PRINTER, MARK LANE.
TO THOMAS WAGHORN, Lieut. R.N., WHO BY HIS OWN ENERGY, AND INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS, SUCCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING THE PRACTICABILITY OF THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA; SACRIFICING HIS TIME AND FORTUNE IN DIVESTING THE EGYPTIAN PORTION OF THAT ROUTE OF ITS VARIED DISCOMFORTS; FACILITATING BY THE AID OF STEAM THE PASSAGE OF THE MAHMOUDIEH AND THE NILE; AND RENDERING SAFE, AND EVEN AGREEABLE, THE ONCE DREADED DESERT, THESE SKETCHES ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.