AND LOWER EGYPT. 2/ 



parted from Kafr Idiat with a light north wind, 

 which, about mid-day, arose into very violent 

 squalls. After a navigation of about the space of 

 five leagues, we stopped at Riha^ a village on the 

 western shore, and almost opposite to which is uil- 

 fiehy situated at the foot of the mountain of the 

 east, upon a narrow canal, formed by a pretty con- 

 siderable island. Boats do not pass by this canal, 

 unless they are to land at Atfieh itself. This was 

 formerly a city consecrated to Venus, under the 

 name of A^hrod'ito-poVis, 



I saw a very remarkable pyramid in-land, at four 

 or five leagues distance from Riha^ The course of 

 the river is divided from Kafr la'iat by a chain of 

 Email islands, among which there are some pretty 

 extensive, and which advance sometimes toward 

 the one shore, and sometimes toward the other. 



A multitude of birds, of different kinds, are \o 

 be found in the environs of Riha. There are he- 

 rons, armed plovers, others of a sort which 1 have 

 described in the Delta, at Mehallet-Ahou-All, in 

 the preceding volume, a great many lapwings 

 looking for worms on the brink of the river, &c. 



The squall of wind fell in the evening; a total 

 calm in the atmosphere succeeded it, and conti- 

 nued till the morning of the following day, the 



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