192 Travels through Egypt and Syria. 
the top of the brick-work, being 161 feet from E. The 
chimney finifhes by an iron pipe about 3 feet long. 
Fig. 2, F, thews the plan of the body of the furnace g inches 
thick, the top courfe of bricks being bound together in the 
ufual manner by a ftrong iron hoop G. H is an horizontal 
fe€tion of the chimney and flues*. When only a moderate 
decree of heat is wanted, the horizontal draught-hole C can 
be clofed by a fliding door or regifter, and an opening made 
into the afh-pit, direétly under the bars, by removing the 
ftone ftopper I. (Fig. 1 and 2.) This alfo is ufeful for oc- 
cafionally clearing the bars from feoria, or entirely removing 
them, in order fuddenly to put out the fire. The whole of 
the furnace and chimney is built of Windfor bricks. 
XI. An Account of Mr. Brown’s Travels through . 
Egypt and Syria, &c. 
[Concluded from Page 76. ] 
Ma. BROWN retired a fecond time to Cobbé, with > 
little hopes of ever leaving the country. Of the property, 
which the king’s agents had purchafed on bis arrival, no 
part of the price had yet been paid. He had been infulted 
with the mockery of juftice, yet obliged to thank his oppref- 
fors for the compenfation which their corruption. and malig 
nity alone had rendered incomplete. \ 
He had not omitted to renew to the Melek Mufa the re- 
queft which had been previoufly made to Mifellim and Ibra- 
him. He explained to him, in the leaft exceptionable man-' 
ner, his intention of coming to Cobbé ; completely did away 
all the fufpicions which his enemies had at firit excited ; and 
concluded with defirine permiffion to go to Sennaar, or to 
accompany the firft /e/atea (an armed expedition for the pur- 
pofe of acquiring flaves,) to the fouth or fouth-weft; or to 
have a fafe conduct, and one of the Sultan’s flaves, to dc- 
company him to Bergoo, (the firft Mahometan kingdom on 
the weft.) By the firft route he hoped to have reached Abyf- 
finia, or, if that had been impracticable, to have gone through 
Nubia to Egypt, or by Suakim to the Red Sea, and thence 
* The chimney is detached. about an inch from the wall behind all the 
way to the top. 
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