Excerpt from Cairo Fifty Years Ago: With a Plan of Medieval Cairo

Mr. Stuart Poole, at the date when he made this copy, was in his sixteenth year, a lad of eager intelligence, living since 1842 with his uncle and mother in Cairo, and deeply absorbed in the history and antiquities of Egypt. A year later he was writing his ingenious letters on ancient Egyptian chrono logy, published in 1851 under the title of 'horae Aegyptiacae, ' which, apart from theories which he afterwards abandoned, testify unmistakably to his intellectual powers.

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