588 Phyfical Ohfervations &c. 



Veneris 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 alfo 

 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 nouriflied and 

 fuftained by that Plenty of excellent Fifli which this Port affords 

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

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

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

 of a Jar, whilft the Concha Imhr'icat a is what they ufually ferve 

 up their Food in. 

 rb. Species The fhort Time our Condudors would allow us to ftay at 

 ihhTanlfTor and Suez, would not give me an Opportunity of making 

 ^'^'"''' any further Obfervations 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 Foftils, Plants and Ani- 

 mals, befides other Curiofities, muft undoubtedly have efcaped 

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

 now and then offended with feveral little Swarms of Locufts and 

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

 nary Colours. Vipers, efpeciallyinthe Wildernefsof &';?, 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 Variety of Shapes 

 and fpotted Coverings, afforded an Amufement far more inno- 

 Tke Ach cent and diverting. Near Kairo there are feveral Flocks of the 

 p?Knop- ^ch 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 Turkijh Language, fignifies WliUe Father ; a Name given it partly 

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

 the other Refped, it differs little from the Stork, being black in (everal Places. It is as 

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

 hath given us of it. 2 Vid. Gefn. ut fupra. Arlft. Hift. Anim. 1. p. cap. 32. QiJarti generis 

 (Aquilarum) eft Percnopterus : eadem OripeLirgus vulturina fpccie, alis minimis, reliqua 

 magnitudineantccellens, fedimbellis & degener, ut quam verberct corvus. Plin. l.io. cap. 3. 

 3 This fhould be the Same withCDm Lev. 11. 18. and T]^P1 Deut.14.. 17. which in our 

 TranflatioD, isrendred in both Places the Geer Ea^le Egyptian 



t«rus. 



