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prospect which it commands of the Delta, present- 

 ing the smiling image of the richest cultivation, 

 the perfumed groves which surround it, the pure 

 and wholesome air you there respire, have procured 

 for it the well-merited name of the Garden of Egypt. 

 Every article of necessary or luxurious consumption 

 is there to be found in profusion; there you behold 

 long streets formed by a double row of shops, in 

 which every species of merchandise is exposed to 

 sale ; the necessaries of life are in the greatest abun- 

 dance, and at a very moderate price. But Rossetta 

 possessed allurements sufficient, without ascribing 

 to it others which have no existence, and depend- 

 anceon which might have betrayed travellers into 

 error, and involved them in distress. Cornelius Le 

 Bruyn, for example, who saw inns wherever he 

 went*, or his translator for him, says, that Rossetta 

 it the most agreeable of cities , from the great number 

 of inns for the comfortable accommodation of travel- 

 lets -]-. Who would not have imagined from this, 

 that no precaution on the part of the traveller was 

 requisite in order to be at Ins ease on arriving at 

 Rossetta, and that lie had only to alight at the first 

 house of entertainment that caught his eye ? But 

 be would have been sadly disappointed, for there 

 is absolutely no such thing in the city. The cara- 



* Look back to page 204. 



f Traveli of Cornelius Le Bruyn, vol. ii. p. 1 10, note a. 



vanscras, 



