Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

BY STEAM WITH INDIA. 593

From Sooez to Boolaq by camels is 32 hours' march, say 3 days
Boolaq to Alexandria, a light boat 3 days* (boats ofl
burthen more) . . . J

Makes a total from Bombay to Alexandria of 27
But as the steam-vessel will have to touch at Kossayr, 1
there will be a delay of 1 more day, and we must > 1
therefore reckon the total at . . J

28

Or by steam from Boolaq to Alexandria 1J day, reducing!
it to . . . J

And making the total from Bombay to England 50$

BY KOSSAYR.

From Bombay to Aden . . 10J

Delay at Aden .... 2

Aden to Kossayr . . 6|

Makes a total from Bombay to Kossayr of 19£
From Kossayr to Coptos by camels is 43 hours' march,!
which, including stoppages, will employ 4 days j

From Coptos to Boolaq, by the river, in a country boat 8

From Boolaq to Alexandria . . 3

Making a total, from Bombay to Alexandria, of 34J

28?

Or by steam from Coptos to Boolaq 4 days, and froml
Boolaq to Alexandria lj day, reducing it to . J
And making the total from Bombay to England 52f

Or, as Captain Head recommends, from Bombay to Soco-
tra, and thence to Camaran and Kossayr; which, with a
delay of a day at each of those islands, will occupy about
the same time as the above. But for the advantages of this
last project, I refer the reader to his own observations-}- on

* In this part of the route travellers will soon profit by the con-
venience of a stage coach, which is to run from Qaherah to Alex-
andria. The coaches arrived long since in Egypt, when it was dis-
covered there were no roads; a considerable objection certainly, but
by this tim&I suppose it is in a fair way of being removed.

t Eastern and Egyptian Scenery, &c. pp. 59 and 67.

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