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

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" 5. Cloud}% rainy and windy. N. W.

,c 6. Sunday, very rainy and windy. N.W.

" 7. Rainy and windy. N.W. all day and night.

" 8. Rainy in the morning, very windy all day
" and night, at the latter end of the night very
" rainy, the wind was N. W.

iC 9. The morning very rainy and windy, at
" night very rainy and windy. N. W.

" 10. All day very rainy and windy. N.W.
" The rain falls in sudden gusts, afterwards a little
*« fair, then again cloudy and rainy. At night it
" rained very much, and in the morning snowed.

" 11. Friday, it rained, the afternoon fair, at
" night rainy. N. W.

" 12. Saturday, in the morning rainy, the
" afternoon fair, and at night little wind.

" 13. Sunday, fair, a little wind. N.N. W.

" 14. Monday, little wind, S.E. fair.

'* 15. Fair, little wind, S.E. the air full of
** vapours, so that although no clouds, yet the
" body of the sun shined not bright.

" 16. Fair, little wind. S. E.

<£ 17. Fair, little wind. S.E. These four days,
<c especially the two last, though no clouds, yet a
" caligo all day and night, so that the sun gave
" but a weak shadow, and the stars little light;
" this caligo or hazy weather arose partly from the
u rains that fell before, and partly from the usual
u eveifiu.ving of NihlS.

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