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Egypt
January 17, 1878 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Egypt As It Is," by J.C. McCoan. Egypt, under Mehemet Ali's fourth successor, is more surprisingly, transformed than Russia was then. In any case, whether Egypt is destined, to realize the dream of a great new Arabic empire or not, she presents one of the most curious phenomena in the history of this century. McCoan's book is a welcome addition to the ethnographical and statistical stock of knowledge. The agriculture of the country is mainly in the hands of the Moslem fellaheen, the Turks are for the most part proprietors and officials, the Negroes domestic servants, and the Levantines and Europeans, in their multitudinous varieties, traders, shopkeepers, and dealers in money.

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EGYPT As It Is (Book); ALI, Mehemet; MCCOAN, J. C.; ETHNOLOGY; AGRICULTURE; TURKS; EGYPT
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