I^O TRAVELS IN UPPER 



entering the boat. At last a discharge of musketry 

 very soon freed us from a visit too impertinent. 



No modern, before Mr. Bruce, had ascertained 

 the situation of Dendera. The astronomical ob- 

 servations which he had the power of making 

 there, have determined the latitude of a place for- 

 merly celebrated, and which the beautiful re- 

 niains of antiquity which it contains render still 

 interesting, at a6° lo'. But this traveller re^ 

 proves, very improperly and sharply, Norden, for 

 having said that Dendera was to the south o( Bas- 

 joura, a town which Mr. Bruce places at 26° 3'*. 

 However, the opinion of Norden is adopted by all 

 those who are acquainted with Upper Egypt : it 

 is conformable to fact, and I cannot conceive how 

 a traveller so well informed as Mr. Bruce should 

 have been mistaken so far, as to place to the 

 north of a point, a place, which in reality is se- 

 veral leagues toward the south, of which it is 

 very easy to be satisfied, by casting your eye over 

 the map of Egypt, plate XXXVII f. Some pages 

 further on, Mr. Bruce advances Basjoura 16''^ 

 more towards the south, by placing it at 26"^ 3' 16'''. 

 In all this there is apparently some error either 

 in the compilation, or in the translation. 



■* Travels to the Spiirces p,f the Nile, 



