τ 88 Thyfical Ohfervations &c. 



f^eneris is feen in a great Variety of Spots and Sizes : whilft 

 the Turbinated and Bivalve Shells, of all Kinds, are not only 

 common and in a great Luxuriancy of Colours, but are alio 

 fometimes fo exceedingly capacious, that there have been found 

 fome, of theFormerSort,which were aFoot and an half Long, and 

 of theLatter, that were as much in Diameter. I have already ob- 

 ferved, that the Port of Tor hath greatly contributed towards 

 the Buildings of the adjacent Village. But this is not the only 

 Conveniency and Advantage which the Inhabitants receive 

 from it : inafmuch as they are almoft intirely nouriihed and 

 fuftained by that Plenty of excellent Fiih which this Port affords 

 them. Neither is this all ; for the very Furniture and Utenfils 

 of their Houfes are all fetched from the fame plentiful Magazine ; 

 the Nautilus fupplying the Place of a Cup, and thtBuccinum that 

 of a Jar, whilft the Concha Imhricata is what they ufually ferve 

 up their Food in. 

 F<w Species The fliort Time our Condudors would allow us to ftay at 

 ihhTarl'ofTor and Suez, would not give me an Opportunity of making 

 ^'^''''' any further Ohfervations either in the Botany or Zoology of the 

 Red Sea. As we were likewife frequently obliged, for Cool- 

 nefs, to travel in the Night, feveral FoiTils, Plants and Ani- 

 mals, belides other Curiolities, muft undoubtedly have efcaped 

 my Notice. Yet I fhould not omit obferving, that we were 

 now and then oflfended with feveral little Swarms of Locufts and 

 Hornets, both of them of an unufual Size, though of the ordi- 

 nary Colours. Vipers, efpeciallyintheWildernefsof »Si;?, were 

 very dangerous and troublefome ; not only our Camels, but the 

 Arahs who attended them, running every Moment the Rifque 

 of being bitten. But the Lizard Kind, in their \^ariety of Shapes 

 and fpotted Coverings, afforded an Amufement far more inno- 

 Tke Ach cent and diverting. Near Ka'iro there are feveral Flocks of the 

 ρϊοϊορ- -^cl^ Bohha \ which, like the Ravens about our Metropolis, feed 

 upon the Carrion and Naftinefs, that is thrown without the City. 

 This Bird is the fame with the Tercnopterus or Oripelargus of 

 the Naturalifts', the [_^^/\ Rachamah of the Arabs \ and the 



I Ach Bobba, in the Turkif} Language, fignifies mtite Father ; a Name given it partly 

 out of the Reverence they have for it, partly from the Colour oi it's Plumage : though, in 

 the other Reipea, it differs little from the Stork, being black in leveral Places. It is as 

 big as a large Capon, and cxadly like the Figure which Gefner Lib. 3. de Avib. p. 176. 

 !iath given us of it. 2 Vid. Gefn. ut fupra. ^rifl. Hift. Anim. 1. 9. cap. 32. Quarti generis 

 (Aquilarum) ell; Pemiopterus : cadem OnpcUrgtis vulturina ipccie, alis minimis, reliqua 

 inagnitudineantccellcns, fedimbellis & dcgener, ut quam verberet corvus. Pl'm. l.io. cap.j. 

 3 This ftiould be the Same with CDm lev. 11. 18. and ΠΏΠΙ D«(M4. 17. which in our 

 Tranllation, isrcndred in both Places the Gm Eagle. Egyptian 



terus. 



