AND LOWER EGYPT. J3J 



This insect has, besides, sheaths of a dull red, 

 with a stripe of an apple green on a third of their 

 length : the wings outstretched of gray tinged 

 with yellow, and their fibres or nerves red ; the 

 thighs of the two first rows with yellow claws; 

 the legs, the tarsus, and the palettes, red ; the 

 claws black ; the thighs of the posterior legs, yel- 

 low on the outside, and reddish within ; the legs 

 and the tarsus of the most beautiful red, with 

 tints of the liveliest blue on the upper part of 

 the legs. 



The 6th of November, at three in the morning, 

 a considerable shower of rain fell, with a wind 

 from the north-north-west. This epocha was not 

 uninteresting ; for this was the first rain of the 

 year which descended to cool the atmosphere of 

 Lower Egypt, and, as I have already said, this 

 was the commencement of that season to which 

 the name of winter was given, because the tem- 

 perature became less scorching. 



The next day I crossed the Nile, and took a 

 long walk over the humid and verdant soil of the 

 Delta. This part of Lower Egypt is an immense 

 plain, but it has not that fatiguing monotony so 

 general in level countries. The cities and the 

 villages are built upon little eminences, which 

 raise them above the height of the inundation. 



Groves 



