Excerpt from Cairo Fifty Years Ago: With a Plan of Medieval CairoM313601exquisite sepia sketches designed to illustrate it, still remains an unpublished manuscript in the British Museum, where it is catalogued under the numbers Add. 34080-88. The Description of Egypt, ' it will there be found, contains an account of Cairo, and it is probable that, as Lane was still expecting the speedy publication of this manuscript, he reserved his description of Cairo for the purely topographical work, instead of transferring it to the special treatise on the manners and customs of the modern inhabi tants. Nevertheless, he seems at one time to have contemplated a different plan, and to have revised and enlarged his description of Cairo with a View to its insertion in the 'modern Egyptians.' This would explain the origin of the manuscript which is now for the first time published. The chapters on Cairo in the ms. 'description of Egypt'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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