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has either lost, or has some disease in, the
eyes ; while for the leprosy, and other dis-
gusting diseases of the skin, this place seems
without a parallel.
Filthiness and the immoderate plague of
vermin are also to be taken into the account ;
while the women, happily for the Europeans,
were so ugly as to render the use of their
black cloth veils totally needless. Through
this veil, two eye-holes are cut ; and thus,
a most disgusting groupe of wretched beings,
an intolerable stench, and houses almost un-
inhabitable, form the charms of Rosetta, and
M. Savary’s Garden of Eden I The quay
alone is a handsome object, and certainly
might be improved. Here Sir R. Wilson,
who seems quite an enemy to figurative or
poetical expressions, observes, that even the
celebrated Nile, divested of the bounties it
bore and some of its peculiar properties, af-
forded no pleasure to the sight: “ the miiddv
if O ' 1 J
stream, not being more than a hundred yards
over, conveyed no idea of majesty.” And
though Savary is lavish in his panegyrics on
the baths of Rosetta, the curious stranger
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need only be informed that, when visiting
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these baths, he first enters a large saloon,
where many people are lying naked in bed,
or getting up, having finished their ablutions,
is then to go through narrow passa-
ges, which smell uncommonly disagreeable,
through the abuses which are there per-
mitted. These avenues become warmer by
degrees, till the steam-heat is almost intole-
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has either lost, or has some disease in, the
eyes ; while for the leprosy, and other dis-
gusting diseases of the skin, this place seems
without a parallel.
Filthiness and the immoderate plague of
vermin are also to be taken into the account ;
while the women, happily for the Europeans,
were so ugly as to render the use of their
black cloth veils totally needless. Through
this veil, two eye-holes are cut ; and thus,
a most disgusting groupe of wretched beings,
an intolerable stench, and houses almost un-
inhabitable, form the charms of Rosetta, and
M. Savary’s Garden of Eden I The quay
alone is a handsome object, and certainly
might be improved. Here Sir R. Wilson,
who seems quite an enemy to figurative or
poetical expressions, observes, that even the
celebrated Nile, divested of the bounties it
bore and some of its peculiar properties, af-
forded no pleasure to the sight: “ the miiddv
if O ' 1 J
stream, not being more than a hundred yards
over, conveyed no idea of majesty.” And
though Savary is lavish in his panegyrics on
the baths of Rosetta, the curious stranger
- z- Z O
need only be informed that, when visiting
J k 7 _ o
these baths, he first enters a large saloon,
where many people are lying naked in bed,
or getting up, having finished their ablutions,
is then to go through narrow passa-
ges, which smell uncommonly disagreeable,
through the abuses which are there per-
mitted. These avenues become warmer by
degrees, till the steam-heat is almost intole-
w z
F 3