^AQ Geographical Ohfervatioris 



winding of the Stream, fuch a Variety of Villages and Planta- 

 tions which prefent themfelves to our View, that from Rozetto 

 toKairo, and from thence all the Way down the other Branch, 

 to Dami-ata^ we have a continued Scene of Plenty and Abun- 

 dance. The many Turnings of the River, make the Diftance 

 from Kairo, either Way, to be near two hundred Miles, though 

 in a direft Road, it will fcarce amount to half that Number. 

 Kairo, the Kuiro, ot Al Kahirah\ commonly called AlMeJJer, lyeth 

 ΒγΐοΝ.^^' nearly two Miles to the Eaftward of the iVi/e•, and fifteen to the 

 Southward of the Delta, as Memphis * is faid to have done. It is 

 built in the Form of a Crefcent, under the Northern Shade of 

 that Mountain, upon which the antient Caftle of the Babylo- 

 nians was fituated. The Khalis (which is the Amnis Trajanus ' 

 of the Antients, and annually fupplieth the City with Water) 

 runs from one Point of it to another, being, in all, about five 

 Miles in Length. Grand Kairo therefore, according to the 

 Name it ufually goes by among the Europeans, is much infe- 

 riour in Extent * to feveral Cities of Οοήββηάοηι, However it 

 muft be allowed to be exceeding populous ; for feveral Families 

 live in one Houfe, and a Number of Perions in each Chamber of 

 it ; during likewife the bufy Time of the Day, all the Streets 

 are fo crowded with People, that there is Difficulty enough to 

 pafs through them. 

 ne Cape of The Caftle \ which might afterwards give Name to the City % 

 ^er/°)ht7a. IS built, as I before obferved, upon this Mountain ; the Way up to 

 f yioiins^" It being cut all the Way through the Rock, from whence perhaps 



1 v,i>Vsi)\ Al Kahirah, i.e. Vidr'ix, a j.^9 vicir, fubjugavlt. Gol. The fame Interpreta- 

 tion hath been put upon Kah-wan, notwithftanding what hath been already obfenxd, 

 p. 20 1. Occuba, fays D'Av'itj, baftit au me/me lieu ou il avoit defa'it le Comte Gregoire, une 

 v'lUe qu il nomma Cayre, c' eji a dire Vidoire ; puis on I' appelle Cayravan, c' efl a dire deux 

 Vidoires, a caufe d' une autre que les Arabes^ obtinerent depuis. Vid. La Defcription generate 

 del' hiu<\\iQ par P. D'Avity. p. 49. But the Inhabitants of Egjpt, and of all the Levant, 

 ufually call Kairo Mejfer, a Name taken from Miz.raim the Son of Cham, the firft Planter 

 of this Country. Urbs Foflat eft ipfamet Metfr fie dida a Mifram filio Cam, filii Noe, cui 

 pax: ipie enim earn sdificaverat primiius. * Dicitur autem appellata fuifife /ο/?<ίί, quod 

 volente Amro filio Aas, poft captam Metfr, proficifci Alexandriam, pr^eceperit ut prscederet 

 camAlfoflat (i.e. tentorium) & figeretur aut tranfportaretur ante fe : quare accidit utColumba 

 defccndcret,ovum in ejus vertice pareret. Quo ad Amrum delato, jumt ut relinqueretur ten- 

 torium codem in fitu , donee Columba ovum fuum perficcret. Geogr. Nub. p. 97. 

 2 Mi/ujMf J" sy ώΐΒ tS Δίλτα Tp/j^o/roi' fif otun'y. Strab. ut fupra. 3 Vid. Not. 3. p. 342. 4 Pro- 

 vided the Villages of Old Kairo and Boulac, (whereof This lyeth two Miles to the N. E. 

 the Other at the fame Diftance to the W.) ihould have formerly belonged to this City, 

 (and indeed the many interjacent Ruins leem to point out fomething of this Kind,) 

 then Kairo would not have been inferiour is Extent to the Metropolis of Great Britain. 



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 n/f 7ϊ7ϊ. BaCvhcif)^ ί?ιβ?κ κτίζην ««, Kajufwini KfT'fF^f'l•^* tW A/ju^of. ^o/Antiq. Jud. 1.2. cap. v. 



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