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Title: Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f-^ The Roman station of Abu Gehad. Some of the rooms as seenfrom the court, looking- west.—Page 152.
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Front view of the Temple of Wady Abad.—Page 155. Pl. xxv The Temple of Wady Abad. 143 old Apollinopolis Magna, and El Kab, the oldEileithyiaspolis, were the cities from which theyset out. It will, perhaps, be best to state that Edfu stands on the Nile about half-way between Aswan and Luxor—i.e., about 520 miles above Cairo— and that El Kab is situated some 10 milesdown-stream from Edfu. The Wady Abad entersthe desert exactly opposite Edfu; the shrine standsabout 35 miles east of that town; and the RedSea coast is about 100 miles farther east as thecrow flies. Towards the end of March 1908, when the hotsouth winds were driving the tourists towardsthe sea, and the trains from Luxor to Cairo werefull to overflowing, the writer and his wife setout in the opposite direction, travelling southwardsin an empty train as far as the little waysidestation of Mahamid, the nearest stopping-place tothe ruins of El Kab. The camels which were tocarry us and our camp to Setys temple in thedesert we

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