Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, undertaken by order of the old Government of France / C.S. Sonnini. Translated from the French [by W. Combe].

  • Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt
Date:
1800
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Credit: Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, undertaken by order of the old Government of France / C.S. Sonnini. Translated from the French [by W. Combe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XIX. Natron—Bleaching of Cloth and Thread—Other Purpofes for 'which Natron is ■ ufed—Senna—Birds—Defcription of a Species of Falcon—Bergeronnettes, or Wagtails—Dragon-fies—Wafp—Locuft—Rain—Delta—Little Egrets, or Criel Herons—Coot—Quails—Snipes—Spur-winged Plovers—Tenu- %reek. - - - - - Page 208 CHAPTER XX. Journey to Aboukir—Ruins—Bedouins—Harbour and Roadjlead—Jew Drogue- . man—Greek red Partridges—Ruins of Canopus—Fluted coloffal Statue— Canopus—Governor, Cajlle, and Village of Aboukir—Little Pyramid— Return to Roffetta. - - - - - Page 223 CHAPTER XXI. Bedouins—Birds—Boghafs—Tower of Canopus—Abou-mandour—Grapes— . Defect—Jackals—Lizards—lufefls—Serpent—Difficulties in regard to the Pyramid of Aboukir—Opinion of the Egyptians refpefling Travellers. Page 233 CHAPTER XXII. Banana-tree—Papaw-tree—Round-leavedproftrate white Mallow—Melochia, or Garden Jew's Mallow—Bamia, or efculent Hi bif eus—A tie—Buffalo— Water of the Nile—-The Plague—Climate of Egypt—Treatment of the Dead — Cemeteries — Difeafes — Elephantiafis — Dforders of the Eyes. Page 245 CHAPTER XXIII. Circumcifion of the Women—Sefl of the Saadi, or Serpent-eaters. Page 263 CHAPTER XXIV. Winter—Eel of the Nile—Turtle—Birds—Nightingale—A Bird of Prey— Little Owl—White Wagtail—King-fifhers—Heron—Sultana-hen, or Por- phyrion — Spur-winged Plovers — Hoopoes, or Dung-birds—Tenebrio— Orange-trees—Onions—Garlic—Lettuce—Egyptian Arum, or Colocafia— Ichneumon
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