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AND LOWER EGYPT. 2*5
Lastly, a grotesque idol in porcelain, covered
with a purplish red enamel. It is two inches
/our lines high. (Fig. 9.) There are similarones
in porcelain, and in hematites, which have been
engraved in Caylus's Collection of Antiquities, but
it has not been explained.
Having made these little acquisitions, we re-
turned to spend the night off Mclialct- Abou Aii,
and sailed again at five o'clock in the morning of
the 28th. We soon after came in sight of Rahna-
nie, built on the western bank, at tlve entrance of
the canal of Demcnhour, which is navigable only
when the Nile is at its height.
\ shopped a few hours at Fouali. When the Nile
was at liberty to fill the carta's with, its waters
assisting trade and diffusing plenty, when boats
laden with the commodities of Europe and Asia
could navigate the canal of Alexandria to quiet,
without having to. dread the fury of the sea and of
the Boghass4 Fuuah, standing opposite to this canal,
was a considerable and flourishing city, and the
Europeans had settlements there for the purposes
of trade. But the savage carelessness of the tyrants
of Egypt having dried up an abundant source of
prosperity, by suffering the mud to collect in the
beds of the canals, so as to obstruct navigation,
p 4 commerce
Lastly, a grotesque idol in porcelain, covered
with a purplish red enamel. It is two inches
/our lines high. (Fig. 9.) There are similarones
in porcelain, and in hematites, which have been
engraved in Caylus's Collection of Antiquities, but
it has not been explained.
Having made these little acquisitions, we re-
turned to spend the night off Mclialct- Abou Aii,
and sailed again at five o'clock in the morning of
the 28th. We soon after came in sight of Rahna-
nie, built on the western bank, at tlve entrance of
the canal of Demcnhour, which is navigable only
when the Nile is at its height.
\ shopped a few hours at Fouali. When the Nile
was at liberty to fill the carta's with, its waters
assisting trade and diffusing plenty, when boats
laden with the commodities of Europe and Asia
could navigate the canal of Alexandria to quiet,
without having to. dread the fury of the sea and of
the Boghass4 Fuuah, standing opposite to this canal,
was a considerable and flourishing city, and the
Europeans had settlements there for the purposes
of trade. But the savage carelessness of the tyrants
of Egypt having dried up an abundant source of
prosperity, by suffering the mud to collect in the
beds of the canals, so as to obstruct navigation,
p 4 commerce