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Nile until the next month. The rest oi the arniv marched 

 on the following clavs, the inarchcL^ being always peri'ornied 

 bv night, and the army, with very inconsickrable loss, reached 

 the banks of the Nile in a very hcalihy state. The course 

 it pursued was nearly that travelled by Mr. Bruce. During 

 alniost the whole of .Inly the army was encamped on the 

 banks of the Nile, which now began to (ncrflow its banks 

 near Gherme ; they, however, soon prepared to move, and 

 ■detachments went up to Thebes, Luxor, and the cataracts, to 

 press all the boats; and about the end of the month the 

 army began to move to Lower Egypt. The 10th regiment 

 inarched to Girge, the capital of Upper Egypt, sixty miles 

 below Ghcnnc, and on the 27th and following davs the rest 

 of the arniv was embarked in boats. The thermometer 

 had a wide rans;c at Ghenne ; in the author's marquee it va- 

 ried from 71° to 108% on the 20th it rose to HI", and in 

 the open air the heat was from 70" to 1 1 3°. 



By the 1 2th of August, the greater part of the army, 

 after a navigation on the Nile of nearly four hundred miles, 

 arrived at Ghiza. As they landed, the troops were uncom- 

 monly healthy ; but in three weeks the sick of the army ex- 

 ceeded one thousand. A considerable number of ophthal- 

 mic cases occurred, but the prevailing disease was fever; in 

 general it was <>( short duration, of two, three, or five days 

 at most, and rarely proved i'atal. In the month of Sep- 

 tember the plague made its appearance in the hospital of 

 the SSth regiment, in the neighbourhood of Rosetta, which 

 rendered it necessary to adopt measures for preventing the 

 further progress of this destructive scourge. Next to the 

 plague, the most formidable disease in the army, from its 

 general prevalence, Mas ophthalmia. In the 10th and SSth 

 regiments there were upwards of three, hundred and fifty 

 cases, and the total number in the army exceeded six hun- 

 dred. Dysentery and hepatitis prevailed very generally 

 among all the European corps, and the mortality of the 

 month was very con.-iderable. In the month of January, 

 1802, the cases of plague in the Indian army amounted to 

 72, in March the number was 46, and in May 26. 



On the last day of April, orders arrived Irom England to 

 ■general Baird, to return with his army to India, and to de- 

 tach the 10th, 61 St, and SSth regiments, >Ahich were placed 

 ]On the British establishment. On the 3d, the Indian army 

 began to march to Ghiza, where it remained encamped by 

 the pyran)ids for some days, until water and other neces- 

 saries" for the passage over the desert were reported to be 

 ready. They crossed the river, encamped at Boulac^ set off 



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