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The petrified city in Upper Egypt, full of men and women turned to stone. (Perry: View of the Levant.)
Marryat has borrowed the idea in his Pacha of Many Tales.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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