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3°4
travels in upper
CHAP. XVIII.
Castle of Rossetta—Houhou—Lapwing — Turtle-
doves— Clievechc—Lotus—Racket— Cassia—-Sy-
camore — Sclnshne — Dourra — Indian-pink —
Wild-ducks—Thruslies-^Woodcocli.
My excursions in the environs of Rossetta were
frequent, and the)' were always new sources of
pleasure and instruction. I did not fail to carry
my fowling-piece with me ; it enabled me to pro-
cure the different species of birds which give ani-
mation to the plains, before so interesting, from the
variety and the abundance of the plants cultivated
there. I went, the 24th of October *, to an old
ruined castle which is at some distance, and to the
north of Rossetta. It was designed, as well as an-
other placed upon the opposite shore of the Nile,
as a defence to the entrance of the river. At pre-
sent, both the one and the other are a very little
short of a league from the sea. The one I am
speaking of, the construction of which is generally
* I am well aware that the date of my excursions will appear
very trifling to all but naturalists : they will feel that it is essen-
tial to determine, for example, the epochas at which I may have
encountered such and such a bird, in order to ascertain that of
their passage into Egypt.
attributed
travels in upper
CHAP. XVIII.
Castle of Rossetta—Houhou—Lapwing — Turtle-
doves— Clievechc—Lotus—Racket— Cassia—-Sy-
camore — Sclnshne — Dourra — Indian-pink —
Wild-ducks—Thruslies-^Woodcocli.
My excursions in the environs of Rossetta were
frequent, and the)' were always new sources of
pleasure and instruction. I did not fail to carry
my fowling-piece with me ; it enabled me to pro-
cure the different species of birds which give ani-
mation to the plains, before so interesting, from the
variety and the abundance of the plants cultivated
there. I went, the 24th of October *, to an old
ruined castle which is at some distance, and to the
north of Rossetta. It was designed, as well as an-
other placed upon the opposite shore of the Nile,
as a defence to the entrance of the river. At pre-
sent, both the one and the other are a very little
short of a league from the sea. The one I am
speaking of, the construction of which is generally
* I am well aware that the date of my excursions will appear
very trifling to all but naturalists : they will feel that it is essen-
tial to determine, for example, the epochas at which I may have
encountered such and such a bird, in order to ascertain that of
their passage into Egypt.
attributed