AND LOWER EGYPT. 2*J 



were still covered with snow. Welikewise descried, 

 in the gull formed between the cap< j s Corse and 

 Calvi, Red-island, isola Rossa, a small low lying 

 island which guards a deep and important haven 

 against westerly winds. 



We saw a great many porpoises * or blowers, 

 playing on the surface of the sea, an almost certain 

 presage of foul weather. In fact, it was now im- 

 possible for us to make Corsica, or to continue our 

 course, the wind having again become contrary, 

 and blowing a tempest ; we came to the resolution 

 of stopping at Genoa, where we arrived May 4th 

 at ten o'clock in the morning. 



It will not be expected, surely, that I should give 

 a description of the city of Genoa : it is sufficiently 

 known, especially of late years, to dispense with 

 jny speaking 01; the subject. I shall only relate a 

 trifling incident, in which we were the principal 

 performers. Though apparently of no impor- 

 tance, it furnishes a trait of national characters, 

 and for that very reason nunts a place in the nar- 

 ration of a traveller. 



Two female dancrrs held »he first rank in the 

 pallets of the opera ai Genoa ; both had the advan- 

 tages of youth and beaut) ; both were possessed of 



* Delphinus phiccena. Lin. 



equal 



