AND LOWER EGYPT. l6 1 



The right kidney was in a state of tolerable pre- 

 servation ; its figure was oval, convex above, flat- 

 tened below : it was five lines and a half in length, 

 and three in breadth. On the upper side, in the 

 membranous fragments, I distinguished a very small 

 gland, oval, and somewhat hard. 



The left kidney was not in such a good state of 

 preservation as the right ; it appeared somewhat 

 more considerable. The bladder was very mus- 

 culous, flattened, oval, and narrower at bottom ; 

 it was in very good preservation, and was five lines 

 long and two broad in the upper part. 



The jerbo is commonly found in Lower Egypt, 

 principally in the Bahire, or western part. The 

 denomination of rats, or mice of the mountain, has 

 been improperly applied to them ; for all the lower 

 part of Egypt is a plain. Hasselquitz, in the pas- 

 sages already quoted, alleges, that these denomi- 

 nations have been invented by the French. This 

 is not the only occasion on which this traveller has 

 fallen into error, from an inclination to speak 

 slightingly of our nation. The small number of 

 Frenchmen trading to Egypt, do not know what 

 rat of the mountain means ; the literati of other na- 

 tions are the persons chargeable with transforming 

 the jerbo into a rat # . 



* See the nomenclature at the beginning of this chapter. 

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