Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert: Travels in upper and lower Egypt (Band 2) (London, 1807)

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CHAP. XXX.

Voyage on the Nile continued—Terr ana—Dovecots
—/Fa " tails—Ducks—Crows—A funeral—New
species of plover—Ruins—Antique figures—Foua
—Banks of the Nile—Return to Rossetta.

On the 20th in the morning we resumed our
voyage toward Rossetta, as soon as a very thick
fog, during which it was impossible to distin-
guish objects at the smallest distance, was dis-
persed. When it cleared up a strong gale came on
from the north, which raised a swell in the river,
and prevented our boat from driving down with
the stream. Below laguouss the Nile runs north by
west. Half a league from lagnouss is a place
called Ikmas, and half a league further is Terrana,
where I stopped.

Terrana, or Terane, as it is called on Danville's
map, is a well-enclosed town, consisting entirely
of mud-walled houses, like all the villages in
these parts, and the residence of a Kiaschef. In
the environs, the vestiges of the ancient city of
Terenuthis appear in some ruins, known in the
country at present by the name of Aboubellou.

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