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I96 TRAVELS IN UPPER
plum-tree, the bark of which is gray, and not
unlike that of willows. Its leaves are alternate,
obtuse, trinervated, and of a deep green colour.
The fruit resembles a small round apple * in ap-
pearance, and has more of the flavour of an apple
than of a plum. When it is not thoroughly ripe,
it has an acerb taste, like that of the crab; and
when over-ripe it is tastleless ; but if it be eaten in
a proper state of maturity, it is pleasant enough.
The stone is round and covered with asperities.
Opposite Iagnouss the Nile was almost covered
with ducks; and I was much astonished to see in
the midst of them flights of common pigeons, a
incredible number of which are bred in Egypt,
pitching on the water every moment, even in the
strongest part of the current, and remaining upon
its sorfaee often more than a minute. This habit,
which I never observed in any other place, and
which is probably owing to the great heat of the
climate, is common in this hot country to all pi-
geons of this species.
* Savary, who appears never to have seen this fruit, says it
is a small pear, of a sourish taste. J^ettres tut I Egypte, torn. ii.
page 43.
plum-tree, the bark of which is gray, and not
unlike that of willows. Its leaves are alternate,
obtuse, trinervated, and of a deep green colour.
The fruit resembles a small round apple * in ap-
pearance, and has more of the flavour of an apple
than of a plum. When it is not thoroughly ripe,
it has an acerb taste, like that of the crab; and
when over-ripe it is tastleless ; but if it be eaten in
a proper state of maturity, it is pleasant enough.
The stone is round and covered with asperities.
Opposite Iagnouss the Nile was almost covered
with ducks; and I was much astonished to see in
the midst of them flights of common pigeons, a
incredible number of which are bred in Egypt,
pitching on the water every moment, even in the
strongest part of the current, and remaining upon
its sorfaee often more than a minute. This habit,
which I never observed in any other place, and
which is probably owing to the great heat of the
climate, is common in this hot country to all pi-
geons of this species.
* Savary, who appears never to have seen this fruit, says it
is a small pear, of a sourish taste. J^ettres tut I Egypte, torn. ii.
page 43.