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PUBLISHED BY M. AND J. CONRAD, AND CO..
No. 140, MARKET-STREET, BALTIMORE:
AND RAPIN, CONRAD, AND CO. WASHING-
TON CITY.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY!

381464

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1905

TRAVELS OF

RICHARD POCOCKE, L. L. D. F. R. S.

THROUGH EGYPT.

INTERSPERSED WITH REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS,

BY CAPTAIN NORDEN.

DR. RICHARD POCOCKE, distantly related to that eminent orientalist, Dr. Edward Pococke, was born in Southampton, in 1704. He received his scholastic learning at his native place, under the tuition of his father, and his academical at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; where he took the degree of Doctor of Laws, being then precentor of Dismore, in 1733. Four years after, he commenced his travels, and returned in 1742. In 1756 he was promoted to the bishoprick of Ossory, and afterwards translated to that of Meath, in which situation he died in 1765, of an apoplectic stroke, while in the course of the visitation of his diocess.

His travels have gained him distinguished reputation; and had he pursued them in company with Captain Norden, who was then engaged in similar pursuits, and who was perfectly skilled in

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