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AND LOWER EGYFT. IC) 5
fore, and had begun to rise. The inhabitants were
in hopes that the inundation would this year be
considerable ; they grounded this expectation on
the great number of water-spinners* which as-
sembled above the surface of the earth, experience
having taught them, that the more abundant these
insects are, the more abundant will be the waters
of the river. Whole swarms, or, to speak more
properly, clouds of water-spinners were seen so
thick, that the air, to a certain height, was filled
with them, and you might, if I may so express
myself, have cut them with a knife.
The day after my arrival a Cophtish Catholic of
Kous engaged me to meet the Superior whom he
had just invited to dinner. On the 28th we passed
the Nile, and found, on landing, horses in readi-
ness to convey us to Kous, which the inhabitants of
the Said pronounce Gous. It is a town in which a
Kiaschcf resided, and which is situated at some dis-
tance from the eastern bank of the Nile, opposite to
Negnade, but about half a league more to the north-
ward : according to Danville, it now fills the place
of the ancient city of ApoUinis-parva, which An-
thony, in his Itinerary, simply styles incus Apollmis,
or the village of Apollo. The only monument of
antiquity to be seen there, was the front of a small
temple dedicated to the sun, half buried. Its plan
* Tipula culiclformis.
is
fore, and had begun to rise. The inhabitants were
in hopes that the inundation would this year be
considerable ; they grounded this expectation on
the great number of water-spinners* which as-
sembled above the surface of the earth, experience
having taught them, that the more abundant these
insects are, the more abundant will be the waters
of the river. Whole swarms, or, to speak more
properly, clouds of water-spinners were seen so
thick, that the air, to a certain height, was filled
with them, and you might, if I may so express
myself, have cut them with a knife.
The day after my arrival a Cophtish Catholic of
Kous engaged me to meet the Superior whom he
had just invited to dinner. On the 28th we passed
the Nile, and found, on landing, horses in readi-
ness to convey us to Kous, which the inhabitants of
the Said pronounce Gous. It is a town in which a
Kiaschcf resided, and which is situated at some dis-
tance from the eastern bank of the Nile, opposite to
Negnade, but about half a league more to the north-
ward : according to Danville, it now fills the place
of the ancient city of ApoUinis-parva, which An-
thony, in his Itinerary, simply styles incus Apollmis,
or the village of Apollo. The only monument of
antiquity to be seen there, was the front of a small
temple dedicated to the sun, half buried. Its plan
* Tipula culiclformis.
is