A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage Up the Red-Sea: On the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a Route Through the Desarts of Thebais, Hitherto Unknown to the European Traveller, in the Year M.DCC.LXXVII. In Letters to a Lady. By Eyles Irwin, Esq. in the Service of the Honble. The East-India Company. Illustrated with Maps and Cuts |
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