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and thrown on their sides, or wrecked upon the shoals; while the 

 smaller ones are completely overset. Many also that have taken 

 refuge in the creeks, unless they have fortunately changed their 

 place in due time (which it is very difficult to do on account of 

 the instantaneous fall of the water) upon the return of the tide 

 are filled with the very first head of the flood and sunk. But all 

 these circumstances united concur more especially if the new 

 moon falls in conjunction with the night tide; for then, if you 

 have been prepared to enter upon the first flood, and when the 

 sea appeared perfectly calm, you shall hear, in a moment, a rush- 

 ing sound like the tumult of battle, and the water driving forward 

 with the utmost impetuosity, covers the whole of the bare shoals 

 in an instant." 



Upon this passage Dr. Vincent remarks, " it will immediately 

 appear, that the description relates to that sort of tide which is 

 called the bore; and is common to many places in Europe as well 

 as India. On the coast of Egypt, or in the Red Sea, the author 

 could have seen nothing that resembled it; and he dwells upon it, 

 therefore, with more minuteness than a modern observer would 

 employ; but from this very cause it is that we have a picture 

 which cannot deceive us; and a conviction that the author relates 

 what he had himself experienced." 



Three years had elapsed since my last visit to Baroche, with 

 Ragobah's army; I found it much improved in buildings, popula- 

 tion, and commerce. The cotton trade was very considerable; 

 and the manufactures of this valuable plant, from the finest muslin 

 to the coarsest sail-cloth, employed thousands of men, women, 

 and children, in the metropolis and adjacent villages. The cotton- 



