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A N D N U B I A. 4S
Callicoes os all sa£hions. Sugar.
Yellow wax. Sena.
Sal-ammoniac. Castia.
Sassron.
There is exported besides that an enormous quantity os cosiee os Mocha, and
of all sorts os commodities, drugs, spices, callicoes, and other merchandizes
of the Eaft Indies, which thirty or sorty vessels land at Suez, srom whence
they go every year, laden by the merchants os Cairo with commodities os Eu-
rope and of Egypt.
To these sew remarks concerning Grand Cairo, I mall join some others, that
regard Old Cairo.
OLD CAIRO.
"^ HIS ancient city, os which I give in my dejig?ts three different views, is Plates
fituated on the border of the great canal, that feparates the island os ??'JSf?'
Rodda srom the continent. Its length, to reckon from the machine
that raises the water of the aqueduct, quite to the Basar, is a quarter of a French
league ; and its greateft breadth, to take it from the Monks hofpital, quite to
the canal, is of sive hundred ordinary paces. The reft is very unequal, and its
extremities terminate by houfes alone.
The greater!: part of its buildings, except the habitations os workmen, con-
lifts in houfes of pleafure, where the great men, and the perfons of diftinclion at
Cairo, go to divert themselves, at the feafon when the waters os the Nile have
begun their' encrease. But the gardens are in great number; and palm trees,
as well as vine-arbours, take up a great deal os ground.
There may be at Old Cairo an hals dozen of mofques, adorned with mina-
rets. The Jews have there a synagogue ; the Roman catholicks an hofpital,
occupied by the sathers os the Holy land ; the Copti, a contrade \ with divers
cWches; amongft others, that where the grotto is, in which, a tradition runs,
*W the holy virgin reposed herself when fhe retired into Egypt: and the fathers
of the Holy land pay the Copti a certain sum, annually, to have the privilege
°f faying mass in this grotto, as osten as they please.
The Water-house is a work of the Saracens. It might have served anci-
ently as a palace. At present, one fees there four mills that turn ropes os vile
earthen pots. Oxen work them ; and it is this that surnifhes with water the
aciuedu£r, which supplies the castle os Grand Cairo. The whole is built of
sree-ftone.
One os the most constderable edisices is Joseph's granary. It occupies a
%iare furrounded by a wall, and they have contrived within it divers partitions.
a A sort of convent.
N They
Callicoes os all sa£hions. Sugar.
Yellow wax. Sena.
Sal-ammoniac. Castia.
Sassron.
There is exported besides that an enormous quantity os cosiee os Mocha, and
of all sorts os commodities, drugs, spices, callicoes, and other merchandizes
of the Eaft Indies, which thirty or sorty vessels land at Suez, srom whence
they go every year, laden by the merchants os Cairo with commodities os Eu-
rope and of Egypt.
To these sew remarks concerning Grand Cairo, I mall join some others, that
regard Old Cairo.
OLD CAIRO.
"^ HIS ancient city, os which I give in my dejig?ts three different views, is Plates
fituated on the border of the great canal, that feparates the island os ??'JSf?'
Rodda srom the continent. Its length, to reckon from the machine
that raises the water of the aqueduct, quite to the Basar, is a quarter of a French
league ; and its greateft breadth, to take it from the Monks hofpital, quite to
the canal, is of sive hundred ordinary paces. The reft is very unequal, and its
extremities terminate by houfes alone.
The greater!: part of its buildings, except the habitations os workmen, con-
lifts in houfes of pleafure, where the great men, and the perfons of diftinclion at
Cairo, go to divert themselves, at the feafon when the waters os the Nile have
begun their' encrease. But the gardens are in great number; and palm trees,
as well as vine-arbours, take up a great deal os ground.
There may be at Old Cairo an hals dozen of mofques, adorned with mina-
rets. The Jews have there a synagogue ; the Roman catholicks an hofpital,
occupied by the sathers os the Holy land ; the Copti, a contrade \ with divers
cWches; amongft others, that where the grotto is, in which, a tradition runs,
*W the holy virgin reposed herself when fhe retired into Egypt: and the fathers
of the Holy land pay the Copti a certain sum, annually, to have the privilege
°f faying mass in this grotto, as osten as they please.
The Water-house is a work of the Saracens. It might have served anci-
ently as a palace. At present, one fees there four mills that turn ropes os vile
earthen pots. Oxen work them ; and it is this that surnifhes with water the
aciuedu£r, which supplies the castle os Grand Cairo. The whole is built of
sree-ftone.
One os the most constderable edisices is Joseph's granary. It occupies a
%iare furrounded by a wall, and they have contrived within it divers partitions.
a A sort of convent.
N They