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58 TRAVELSINEGYPT
The contest that had happened, made us lose all thoughts os settlng sail.
Our barque remained at anchor all the day, which I employed in looking at
the adjacent places of Demegraed, without discovering the leaft trace of the
ancient Grocodilopclis^ which, it is pretended, was situated there. It was not till
eight o'clock in the evening that we set sail.
Monday, i 6th of December.
W E continued sailing all the night; and the wind was sb savourable, that at
five o'clock in the morning we had already pasied
See the map M ah am i id, G e r e r a, and £ l l Tsch ibbelle en. These are three
Plate ' villages, situated on the western more os the Nile. The laft, however, is distant
cxiv. from thence near hals a league; and almoft opposite, you see
Schagab, a mere village; as like wise
EllKiman, which we left, some time aster, on our right. At a league higher
we find
Ass Fuun, a city of an handsome appearance, and which has a mosque. It is
the capital os the valley os
Mettani, and is situated a little within land, to the weft os the Nile. It
has opposite, on the easlern shore os the river, the village os
Magdscheradome. At a league and a hals higher we saw, on the same
side os the Nile, a convent os Copti, called
Deier Omali. And opposite, a village named
Ell A r d i e. Asterwards at a good league and a hals surther, we perceived
H e l l e, a village situated opposite to
PLATE E s n a y. This is a great city, to the weft os the Nile, adorned with a mosque,
cxxi. an(j 0s which I have given a view.
Fig. 2.
E s n a y, is the residence os an Arab schech; and it is believed, that the ancient
Latopolis was situated in this place. One os our sathers, who underftood Arabic,
went ashore to carry to this schech the letter os Osman bey. But he returned
an hour aster with the news, that the schech, to whom the letter was addresTed,
v/as dead; that his two fons were gone away from thence; that there was in the
city only their cachef, who was likewife upon the point of setting out to go and
vifit some os his demefnes; and that it was not possible to speak to him, because
he was then with his women. There is in the middle of Esnay an ancient temple,
closed on three fides, and whose sront presents to view columns. They are
in number twenty-four, and appear very well preserved. A chanelled border
runs a-top ail round the edifice; but in the middle, on the side which makes the
front os the temple, they have contrived a cartouche, or ornament, such as we
Plate fee on all the principal gates of Egypt, as may be remarked in the particular design
cxliv. that I give os it.
Let. A.
A SEMI
The contest that had happened, made us lose all thoughts os settlng sail.
Our barque remained at anchor all the day, which I employed in looking at
the adjacent places of Demegraed, without discovering the leaft trace of the
ancient Grocodilopclis^ which, it is pretended, was situated there. It was not till
eight o'clock in the evening that we set sail.
Monday, i 6th of December.
W E continued sailing all the night; and the wind was sb savourable, that at
five o'clock in the morning we had already pasied
See the map M ah am i id, G e r e r a, and £ l l Tsch ibbelle en. These are three
Plate ' villages, situated on the western more os the Nile. The laft, however, is distant
cxiv. from thence near hals a league; and almoft opposite, you see
Schagab, a mere village; as like wise
EllKiman, which we left, some time aster, on our right. At a league higher
we find
Ass Fuun, a city of an handsome appearance, and which has a mosque. It is
the capital os the valley os
Mettani, and is situated a little within land, to the weft os the Nile. It
has opposite, on the easlern shore os the river, the village os
Magdscheradome. At a league and a hals higher we saw, on the same
side os the Nile, a convent os Copti, called
Deier Omali. And opposite, a village named
Ell A r d i e. Asterwards at a good league and a hals surther, we perceived
H e l l e, a village situated opposite to
PLATE E s n a y. This is a great city, to the weft os the Nile, adorned with a mosque,
cxxi. an(j 0s which I have given a view.
Fig. 2.
E s n a y, is the residence os an Arab schech; and it is believed, that the ancient
Latopolis was situated in this place. One os our sathers, who underftood Arabic,
went ashore to carry to this schech the letter os Osman bey. But he returned
an hour aster with the news, that the schech, to whom the letter was addresTed,
v/as dead; that his two fons were gone away from thence; that there was in the
city only their cachef, who was likewife upon the point of setting out to go and
vifit some os his demefnes; and that it was not possible to speak to him, because
he was then with his women. There is in the middle of Esnay an ancient temple,
closed on three fides, and whose sront presents to view columns. They are
in number twenty-four, and appear very well preserved. A chanelled border
runs a-top ail round the edifice; but in the middle, on the side which makes the
front os the temple, they have contrived a cartouche, or ornament, such as we
Plate fee on all the principal gates of Egypt, as may be remarked in the particular design
cxliv. that I give os it.
Let. A.
A SEMI