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196 TRAVELS IN UPPER
channel, there was all the reason in the world to
presume that, in a little time, no boat whatever
would venture to encounter that formidable bar.
In this case, they must perhaps have thought of
clearing out the canal of Alexandria, or, if the
carelessness of the inhabitants had infatuated them
to such a degree as to neglect a work of so much
importance, all communication by water must
have been interrupted between Alexandria and the
rest of Egypt, and commerce reduced to employ
the expensive transportation of merchandise by
land carriage.
This is the mode generally adopted by the tra-
vellers and traders of Europe, as well as by those
who prefer a slight increase of expense to the risk
of being drowned in the boghass. This is the
conveyance I made use of in all the excursions I
ever undertook, between Alexandria and Rossetta.
Before I quit the coast, I must take notice of
the sea fishes which I had occasion to remark,
among the numerous species of which their fish-
ery consists. I have seen there that species of
thornback known by the name of the sea-eagle*,
the flesh of which is hard and ill-tasted ; the sea-
* Raia corpore glebro, aculeo longo senate in caudd finnata.
Arted. Gen. 45.—Raia aquila. Lin.
cat,
channel, there was all the reason in the world to
presume that, in a little time, no boat whatever
would venture to encounter that formidable bar.
In this case, they must perhaps have thought of
clearing out the canal of Alexandria, or, if the
carelessness of the inhabitants had infatuated them
to such a degree as to neglect a work of so much
importance, all communication by water must
have been interrupted between Alexandria and the
rest of Egypt, and commerce reduced to employ
the expensive transportation of merchandise by
land carriage.
This is the mode generally adopted by the tra-
vellers and traders of Europe, as well as by those
who prefer a slight increase of expense to the risk
of being drowned in the boghass. This is the
conveyance I made use of in all the excursions I
ever undertook, between Alexandria and Rossetta.
Before I quit the coast, I must take notice of
the sea fishes which I had occasion to remark,
among the numerous species of which their fish-
ery consists. I have seen there that species of
thornback known by the name of the sea-eagle*,
the flesh of which is hard and ill-tasted ; the sea-
* Raia corpore glebro, aculeo longo senate in caudd finnata.
Arted. Gen. 45.—Raia aquila. Lin.
cat,