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ground; fifty days afterwards it is transplanted into fresh ground, which
has been twice ploughed. The new plants, which are eight inches
asunder, are carefully hoed for three months, when they are cut; and after
another mouth a second cutting is usual: the woody and fibrous parts are
then separated from the leaves; which last, when dried in the sun for six
days, are packed up in sacks made of matting, and sent to different parts
of Egypt. The produce of the two cuttings will be in general about three
camel-loads per feddan, that is, twenty bales of dried leaves, each weighing
forty pounds at the first, and ten bales at the second : the value of this last
is much inferior to the other, the best being sold at three pataques the
hundred weight, that of an inferior quality at one third less.
The price of live stock is in general low throughout Egypt. That of a
yoke oxen for the plough varies from thirty to forty crowns; buffaloes are
somewhat cheaper ; that of a camel between fifteen and twenty crowns, a goat
not four shillings, and a sheep about seven. Horses are merely kept as objects
of luxury and of war; very great sums are given for those of a know*
breed ; that of an ordinary horse is from twenty to thirty crowns.
The most useful trees in Egypt are the date-tree, the sycamore, the
rhamnus napeca, and the mimosa nilotica. Of the first are made planks,
rafters, and upright timbers used in the construction of houses, beds, chairs,
and other articles of furniture. The sycamore is chiefly used on the boats
of the Nile, and the two last are the most serviceable, from their 4iard
texture, in making the machines for raising water. The grain of the
mimosa nilotica is applied as a substitute for oak bark in the process of
tanning.
At the conquest of Egypt by Selim, an arbitrary calculation of the value
of the lands and offices was made by the conquerors; and it was then de-
finitively settled what proportion of the miri, or public revenue, should be
furnished by each district, town, and village. This was payable both in
:eand in kind; the amount of the former was fixed at one hundred
and seventeen millions of medins, in which rum were comprehended the
receipts at the custom-house on the import and export trade. The dif-
ferent military companies, headed each by a Mamaluke Bey, and assisted
by his slaves, were charged with its collection and transmission to Constanti-
nople ;
ground; fifty days afterwards it is transplanted into fresh ground, which
has been twice ploughed. The new plants, which are eight inches
asunder, are carefully hoed for three months, when they are cut; and after
another mouth a second cutting is usual: the woody and fibrous parts are
then separated from the leaves; which last, when dried in the sun for six
days, are packed up in sacks made of matting, and sent to different parts
of Egypt. The produce of the two cuttings will be in general about three
camel-loads per feddan, that is, twenty bales of dried leaves, each weighing
forty pounds at the first, and ten bales at the second : the value of this last
is much inferior to the other, the best being sold at three pataques the
hundred weight, that of an inferior quality at one third less.
The price of live stock is in general low throughout Egypt. That of a
yoke oxen for the plough varies from thirty to forty crowns; buffaloes are
somewhat cheaper ; that of a camel between fifteen and twenty crowns, a goat
not four shillings, and a sheep about seven. Horses are merely kept as objects
of luxury and of war; very great sums are given for those of a know*
breed ; that of an ordinary horse is from twenty to thirty crowns.
The most useful trees in Egypt are the date-tree, the sycamore, the
rhamnus napeca, and the mimosa nilotica. Of the first are made planks,
rafters, and upright timbers used in the construction of houses, beds, chairs,
and other articles of furniture. The sycamore is chiefly used on the boats
of the Nile, and the two last are the most serviceable, from their 4iard
texture, in making the machines for raising water. The grain of the
mimosa nilotica is applied as a substitute for oak bark in the process of
tanning.
At the conquest of Egypt by Selim, an arbitrary calculation of the value
of the lands and offices was made by the conquerors; and it was then de-
finitively settled what proportion of the miri, or public revenue, should be
furnished by each district, town, and village. This was payable both in
:eand in kind; the amount of the former was fixed at one hundred
and seventeen millions of medins, in which rum were comprehended the
receipts at the custom-house on the import and export trade. The dif-
ferent military companies, headed each by a Mamaluke Bey, and assisted
by his slaves, were charged with its collection and transmission to Constanti-
nople ;