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JP. Cramer-. "?*?/ •
The continuation of the author's voyage from Essuaen to
D e I R, or D E R R I.
Thursday, 19th of December.
H E city of Essuaen % situated on the eastern shore
of the Nile, is not more considerable than the greater!
part of the other cities of the Upper Egypt. It has,
however, besides its mosques, a citadel, with an aga,
whose name at that time was Ibrahim. One thing
disfcinguishes it greatly from the-other places of the
same government, which is, that you see not here, on
the tops of houses, those sorts of dove-cotes that, at
a distance, give the other towns io agreeable an ap-
pearance.
* Essuaen is the ancient Syene, which, according to Umbras nusquam skaente Syene. _
Pliny, lies directly under the tropic oscancer. Lib; ii. ven 587.
" Simili modo tradunt in Syene oppido, quod Plwy fays likewife, _
^ supra Alexandriam quinque millibus stadiorum, " Ditionis Agypti esse incipit a fine /Ethiopia;
solstitii die medio nullam umbramjaci: puteumque Syene."
eJ«s experimenti crratia factum, totum illuminari. This city is samous clso sor being the place to winch
Ex quo apparere Dtum solem illi loco supra verti- Juvenal was banished, under the pretence indeed os a
cem esse." military commijjion, when he was eighty years old, and
In alhsion to which Luc an has given it the epithet of died fore.
But
,J~. J!satz<s.j£itty&. J£xjn/&'
JP. Cramer-. "?*?/ •
The continuation of the author's voyage from Essuaen to
D e I R, or D E R R I.
Thursday, 19th of December.
H E city of Essuaen % situated on the eastern shore
of the Nile, is not more considerable than the greater!
part of the other cities of the Upper Egypt. It has,
however, besides its mosques, a citadel, with an aga,
whose name at that time was Ibrahim. One thing
disfcinguishes it greatly from the-other places of the
same government, which is, that you see not here, on
the tops of houses, those sorts of dove-cotes that, at
a distance, give the other towns io agreeable an ap-
pearance.
* Essuaen is the ancient Syene, which, according to Umbras nusquam skaente Syene. _
Pliny, lies directly under the tropic oscancer. Lib; ii. ven 587.
" Simili modo tradunt in Syene oppido, quod Plwy fays likewife, _
^ supra Alexandriam quinque millibus stadiorum, " Ditionis Agypti esse incipit a fine /Ethiopia;
solstitii die medio nullam umbramjaci: puteumque Syene."
eJ«s experimenti crratia factum, totum illuminari. This city is samous clso sor being the place to winch
Ex quo apparere Dtum solem illi loco supra verti- Juvenal was banished, under the pretence indeed os a
cem esse." military commijjion, when he was eighty years old, and
In alhsion to which Luc an has given it the epithet of died fore.
But