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ably on this commodity, the Venetians made large 

 profits by it, by sending it into Holland, where it 

 had an extensive sale. Some of the English bought 

 it themselves at Cairo from the Venetians, and 

 found means to receive good profits from it. 



To conclude, it is an error to describe the senna 

 of the Levant by the denomination of the senna 

 of Alexandria. It is shipped there in reality, but 

 it does not grow in the neighbourhood of that 

 city ; it thrives no where in Egypt but towards 

 the cataracts of the Nile, near Assouan. Its 

 Arabic name is sena *. 



On a little excursion which I took the 4th of 

 November, I killed a k ing's- fisher f, a thrush of 

 the large sort J, and a bird of prey, which has not 

 been described, and which appeared to me a species 

 of falcon. The upper part of the beak was hooked 

 at the extremity, and covered underneath with a 

 yellow skin ; the second feather of the wing was 

 longer than the others, and those of the tail were 

 in slight gradations. Its entire length is one foot, 

 that of the beak nine lines and a half, from the 



* Cassia senna. Lin.— Cassia lanceolata. For skal, Flora Egyp- 

 tiaco- Arabic?, page 85. 



f Martin pecheur ou alcyon. Buffon, Hist. Nat. des Ois. et 

 pi. enlum. No. 7;. — Alcedo ispida. Lin. 



% La draine. Buffon, Hist. Nat. des Ois. et pi. enlum. No. 

 489. — Turdus viscivorus. Lin. 



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