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travels in upper
CHAP. XXXVII.
Electricity—Meteorological observations made at
Alexandria and Cairo—Winds—Columns of sand
■—General state of the weather in Egypt.
A few days previous to my arrival in Egypt, two
Germans, carrying about an electrical machine,
had made some experiments at Alexandria, Ros-
setta, and Cairo. They had supposed that they
should get a great deal of money by it: but they
had scarcely any spectators, except ihe small
number of Europeans that resided in the three
cities, with a few Greeks and Syrians. They were
even advised not toendcavour to astonish the people
of the country by the effects of their machine, as
they would not have failed to raise the cry of sorcery,
for which the electrifiers, and probably the other
Europeans likewise, would inevitably have suffered,
I endeavoured to obtain some knowledge re-
specting the intensity of electricity here, but I
could obtain no very definite information. How-
ever, from the questions I put to the different
persons who attended the electrical experiments of
the two Germans, I satisfied myself, that electricity
can be excited more powerfully in our northern
climates than in Egypt.
It
travels in upper
CHAP. XXXVII.
Electricity—Meteorological observations made at
Alexandria and Cairo—Winds—Columns of sand
■—General state of the weather in Egypt.
A few days previous to my arrival in Egypt, two
Germans, carrying about an electrical machine,
had made some experiments at Alexandria, Ros-
setta, and Cairo. They had supposed that they
should get a great deal of money by it: but they
had scarcely any spectators, except ihe small
number of Europeans that resided in the three
cities, with a few Greeks and Syrians. They were
even advised not toendcavour to astonish the people
of the country by the effects of their machine, as
they would not have failed to raise the cry of sorcery,
for which the electrifiers, and probably the other
Europeans likewise, would inevitably have suffered,
I endeavoured to obtain some knowledge re-
specting the intensity of electricity here, but I
could obtain no very definite information. How-
ever, from the questions I put to the different
persons who attended the electrical experiments of
the two Germans, I satisfied myself, that electricity
can be excited more powerfully in our northern
climates than in Egypt.
It