AND LOWER EGYPT. 2 1 9 



It is under this happy temperature, and on a soil 

 wonderfully fresh and verdant, that the city of Ros- 

 setta is situated, where we arrived on the 2 2d of 

 the month, at four o'clock in the afternoon, not 

 having been retarded a single instant on tl)e voyage. 



I went on shore at the house of the vice-consul 

 of France, M. de Troiii, whose taste for the belles- 

 lettres provided him with a charm for his solitude ; 

 I accepted the lodging under his roof, which he 

 tendered me in the most gracious manner ; and I 

 found again in the interpreter, Forneti, the same 

 attentions, the same complaisance, for which I 

 stood indebted to Messrs. Adanson and Augustus, 

 while at Alexandria. Some French merchants 

 lived in the same building ; it was a vast hockal t of 

 a similar form, but much more lofty than that of 

 the French factory at Alexandria. It is close upon 

 the Nile, and, like all the other houses of Rossetta, 

 is built of brick. 



The city is named by the natives, Raschid, the 

 Arabic appellation which it bore as far back as the 

 time of the geographer Edrissi, in 1 1 53, and which 

 the Europeans have transformed into Rossetta *. 



Some 



* And not Rostfta, as it is now commonly written. Rosett 

 is, I grant, softer in the pronunciation : this word suggests an 

 idp mere pleasant and mure analogous to the delicious fragrance 



and 



