*2 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



fubjeft to fuch long inundation, however it may abound 

 in neceffaries, could not boaft of many beautiful produc- 

 tions of its own gardens, though flowers, trees, and plants, 

 were very much in vogue in this neighbourhood, two hun- 

 dred years ago, as we find by the obfervations of Profper 

 ;Alpinus. 



The ftudy and fearch after every thing ufeful or beau- 

 tiful, which for fome time had been declining gradually, 

 fell at laft into total contempt and oblivion, under the 

 brutal reign of thefe laft Haves*, the moil infamous re- 

 proach to the name of Sovereign. 



Rosetto is a favourite halting-place of the Chriftian tra- 

 vellers entering Egypt, and merchants eftablifhed there. 

 There they draw their breaths, in an imaginary increafe of 

 freedom, between the two great finks of tyranny, opprei- 

 iion, and injuitice, Alexandria and Cairo. 



Rosetto has this good reputation, that the people are 

 milder, more tractable, and lefs avaricious, than thofe of 

 the two laft-mentioned capitals ; but I mult fay, that, in my 

 time, I could not difcern much difference. 



The merchants, who trade at all hours of the day with 

 Chriftians, are indeed more civilized, and lefs infolent, than 

 the foldiery and the reft of the common people, which is 

 the cafe every where, as it is for their own intereft ; but 



their 



* The Mr.maluke Bevs. 



