THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. s 



Tn parting, I would fain have gone afhore to fee if there 

 were any remains of the celebrated temple of Paphos ; but 

 a voyage, fuch as I was then embarked on, flood in need of 

 vows to Hercules rather than to Venus, and the mailer, fear- 

 ing to lofe his paflage, determined to proceed. 



Many medals (fcarce any of them good) are dug up in 

 Cyprus; filvcr ones, of very excellent workmanfliip, are found 

 near Paphos, of little value in the eyes of antiquarians, being 

 chiefly of towns of the fize of thofe found at Crete and 

 Rhodes, and all the iflands of the Archipelago. Intaglios there 

 are fomc few, part in very excellent Greek ftyle, and gene- 

 rally upon better ftones than ufual in the iflands. I have lcen 

 fome heads of Jupiter, remarkable for bufhy hair and beard, 

 that were of the moft exquifite workmanfhip, worthy of any 

 price. All the inhabitants of the ifland are fubjecT: to fevers, 

 but more efpecially thofe in the neighbourhood of Paphos. 



We leftLernica the 17th of June, about four o'clock in 

 the afternoon. The day had been very cloudy, with a wind 

 at N. E. which frefhened as we got under weigh. Our mailer, 

 a feaman of experience upon that coaft, ran before it to the 

 weflward with all the fails he could fet. Trotting to a fign 

 that he faw, which he called a. bank, refembling a dark 

 cloud in the horizon, he guefled the wind was to be from 

 that quarter the next day- 



Accordingly, on the 18th, a little before twelve o'clock, 

 a very frefh and favourable breeze came from the N. \V. 

 and we pointed our prow directly, as we thought, upon, 

 Alexandria. 



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