THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 



73 



for here, and the nome of that name, all to the eafhvard 

 of it. 



The wind ftill frefhening, we palled by feveral villages 

 on each fide, all furrounded with palm-trees, verdant and 

 pleafant, but conveying an idea of famenefs and want of 

 variety, fuch as every traveller mull have felt who has fail- 

 ed in the placid, muddy, green-banked rivers in Holland. 



The Nile, however, is here fully a mile broad, the water 

 deep, and the current ftrong. The wind feemed to be exaf- 

 perated by the refinance of the ftream, and blew freih and 

 fteadily, as indeed it generally does where the current is 

 violent. 



"We palled Nizelet Embarak, which means the Blcfled 

 Landing-place. Mr Norden * calls it Giefiret Barrakaed, 

 which he fays is the -watering-place if the crofs. Was this even 

 the proper name here given it, it mould be tranflated the 

 BleiTed Bland; but, without underftanding the language, it 

 is in vain -to keep a regifter of names. 



The boatmen, living cither in the Delta, Cairo, or one of 

 the great towns in Upper Egypt, and coming conftamly load- 

 ed with merchandife, or ilrangers from thefe great places, 

 make fwift paffages by the villages, either down the river 

 with a rapid current, or up with a ftrong, fair, and flcacly 

 wind : And, when -die feafon of the Nile's inundation is over, 

 and the wind turns fouthward, they repair all to the Delta, 

 Vol. I. K the 



■Norderi's travels, vol. ii. p. 19, 



