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24^ TRAVELS IN UPPER
8thly, The head of a woman, the character of
which is not very determinate. Probably it re-
presents Arsino'e, the wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus.
This head is in white marble, four inches high.
{Fig. 2.)
The ruins near lagnouss in all probability mark
the site of the ancient city of Taua. No traveller
has mentioned them, to my knowledge. Their
situation is easily distinguishable by the tomb of a
Turkish saint, which is built in a line with them,
on the same bank of the Nile; and the village of
Ikmas, on the western bank, faces them.
For want of wind we were obliged to stop again
at Terr ana, a place which I have already men-
tioned. Of this opportunity I availed myself, to
take a view of it, which will give an idea of the
manner in which the villages of this country are
built. (See PL XX.)
We met with several little fishing-vessels, the
cargoes of which consisted of schal/s, kaschoiies,
herses, karmouths, kescheres, schilbis, bouris, and
sprats.
The schall is a species of sheat-fish *, never yet
described. (See PL XXI. fig. 2.) lis body is
* Silurus, Lin.
naked
8thly, The head of a woman, the character of
which is not very determinate. Probably it re-
presents Arsino'e, the wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus.
This head is in white marble, four inches high.
{Fig. 2.)
The ruins near lagnouss in all probability mark
the site of the ancient city of Taua. No traveller
has mentioned them, to my knowledge. Their
situation is easily distinguishable by the tomb of a
Turkish saint, which is built in a line with them,
on the same bank of the Nile; and the village of
Ikmas, on the western bank, faces them.
For want of wind we were obliged to stop again
at Terr ana, a place which I have already men-
tioned. Of this opportunity I availed myself, to
take a view of it, which will give an idea of the
manner in which the villages of this country are
built. (See PL XX.)
We met with several little fishing-vessels, the
cargoes of which consisted of schal/s, kaschoiies,
herses, karmouths, kescheres, schilbis, bouris, and
sprats.
The schall is a species of sheat-fish *, never yet
described. (See PL XXI. fig. 2.) lis body is
* Silurus, Lin.
naked