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travels in upper
CHAP. XX.
Journey to Abou'k'ir—Ruins—Bedouins—Port and
road for ships—Jew drogman—Red partridges—
Rains of Canopus—Colossal and fluted statue—
Canopus—Governor, castle, and village of Abou-
kir—Little Pyramid—Return to Rosselta.
Between Rossetta and Alexandria there re-
mained for me still another place to examine,
formerly celebrated under the name of Canopus, at
the present day the Aboukir of the Arabs, and, by
corruption, the Bequie of European navigators.
I knew that it was well worth seeing, and I de-
parted for the purpose of visiting it on the 12th
of November. M. Forneti, drogman at Rossetta,
had an extreme desire to accompany me, and we
took with us a janisary, my draughtsman, and
two servants.
Mounted upon mules we scaled the hills of
sand; the arid and moving rampart which en-
circles the city of Rossetta to the westward. We
entered into the plain of the Turrets or Pillars*,
we afterwards gained the shore of the sea, which
we followed up to the lake of Maadie,
* See page 206.
A flock
travels in upper
CHAP. XX.
Journey to Abou'k'ir—Ruins—Bedouins—Port and
road for ships—Jew drogman—Red partridges—
Rains of Canopus—Colossal and fluted statue—
Canopus—Governor, castle, and village of Abou-
kir—Little Pyramid—Return to Rosselta.
Between Rossetta and Alexandria there re-
mained for me still another place to examine,
formerly celebrated under the name of Canopus, at
the present day the Aboukir of the Arabs, and, by
corruption, the Bequie of European navigators.
I knew that it was well worth seeing, and I de-
parted for the purpose of visiting it on the 12th
of November. M. Forneti, drogman at Rossetta,
had an extreme desire to accompany me, and we
took with us a janisary, my draughtsman, and
two servants.
Mounted upon mules we scaled the hills of
sand; the arid and moving rampart which en-
circles the city of Rossetta to the westward. We
entered into the plain of the Turrets or Pillars*,
we afterwards gained the shore of the sea, which
we followed up to the lake of Maadie,
* See page 206.
A flock