The Mirage of Two Buried Cities (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Mirage of Two Buried Cities As to the new title, the captious critic may say that a bull has been perpetrated for how could there be a mirage from what is buried The reader will realize that I have used the word mirage purely in a figurative sense, as the traveller sees the glimmer of cool water and the tall columns of the palm rising in the midst of the African waste, so, I trust, may the reader, as he passes through these pages, behold the bare ruins of which I have to speak clad in a semblance of their former brightness and beauty. A mirage, though it be mocking, is yet a true representation of that which does exist: therefore I h0pe that I may be able in like manner to conjure up a vision - true, if sometimes blurred - of that which once lived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.