Identifier: egypthand00karl (find matches)
Title: Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Subjects: Egypt -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipsic : Karl Baedeker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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1. Alexandria. Arrival. The perfectly flat N.E. coast of Egypt, and even Alexandriaitself, are not visible to the steamboat passenger until very shortly be-fore the vessel enters the harbour. We first observe the lighthouse ris-ing conspicuously above the flat and colourless line of the coast, andthen a row of windmills, light-coloured buildings, and the smoke of thesteamboats in the harbour. On a hill to the left rises the chateau of theKhedive at Ramleh (p. 222), and on the coast, to the right, at the be-ginning of the entrance to the harbour, we perceive the so-called Babel-Arab (Beduin Gate), the extremity of a line of fortifications extendingbetween the sea and Lake Mareotis (p. 223). It was this western harbouronly, the Eunostos, or harbour of those returning home in safety ofthe Greeks, that European vessels were formerly permitted to enter,while they were rigorously excluded from the Great Harbour on theE. side, which was described by Strabo (p. 208), and is now errone-ously c

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