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TRAVELS IN UPPKSj
CHAP. XXXI.
Political reflections on the Bedouins—Agriculture-—,
Corn—Bread—Fennel-flour—Sesamum, or oily
grain—Ptisans—Barley—Flax—Indigo—Sugar-
canes— Coffee-tree—-French colony in Fgypt—
Olive- trees—Fig. trees—Dale- trees—Hableziss.
The journey I had just ended had made me ac-
quainted with the best parts of the soil of Egypt,
and with the worst: plains covered with plenty,
and deserts parched with perpetual drought. It
had introduced me likewise to those wandering
tribes, equally remarkable for habits diametrically
opposite, those of the chief social virtues, a^d
those of depredation.
Is the existence of the Bedouins, patterns for man,
and scourges of society, more beneficial, or injuri-
ous ? This is a question naturally suggested, but
not so easy to resolve. Speedy as the wind, they
dissappear in a moment from spots which they
have hastily ravaged, and bury themselves in vast
solitudes, to which they alone arc accustomed, and
with the topography of which they only are ac-
quainted. Hence they are difficult to check, and.
still
TRAVELS IN UPPKSj
CHAP. XXXI.
Political reflections on the Bedouins—Agriculture-—,
Corn—Bread—Fennel-flour—Sesamum, or oily
grain—Ptisans—Barley—Flax—Indigo—Sugar-
canes— Coffee-tree—-French colony in Fgypt—
Olive- trees—Fig. trees—Dale- trees—Hableziss.
The journey I had just ended had made me ac-
quainted with the best parts of the soil of Egypt,
and with the worst: plains covered with plenty,
and deserts parched with perpetual drought. It
had introduced me likewise to those wandering
tribes, equally remarkable for habits diametrically
opposite, those of the chief social virtues, a^d
those of depredation.
Is the existence of the Bedouins, patterns for man,
and scourges of society, more beneficial, or injuri-
ous ? This is a question naturally suggested, but
not so easy to resolve. Speedy as the wind, they
dissappear in a moment from spots which they
have hastily ravaged, and bury themselves in vast
solitudes, to which they alone arc accustomed, and
with the topography of which they only are ac-
quainted. Hence they are difficult to check, and.
still