- THESOURCE OF THE NILE, sor 
fourteen or fixteen days, it is well known, an ordinary ca 
mel will live, though he hath no frefh fupply of water 
When he chews the cud, or when he eats, you conftantly fee 
him throw, from this repofitory, mouthfuls of water to di- 
lute his food ;.and: nature has contrived this veffel with 
fuch properties, that the-water within it never putrifies, nor 
turns unwholefome. It was indeed vapid, and:of a bluifh 
caft, but had.neither tafte nor {mell. 
Tue fmall remains of.ourmiferable ftock of black bread’ 
and dirty water, the only fupport we had hitherto lived on 
-amidft the burning fands, and our fpirits likewife, were 
exhaufted by an uncertainty of our journey’s end: We 
were furrounded among, thofe terrible and unufual pheno- 
mena of nature which Providence, in mercy to the weak- 
nefs of his creatures, has concealed far from their fight in 
deferts almoft inacceffible to them. Nothing but death was: 
before our eyes; and,.in.thefe terrtble moments of pain, 
fuffering, and defpair, honour, inftead of relieving-me, fug- 
gefted ftill what was to be an augmentation to my misfor- 
tune ; the feeling this produced fell directly upon me alone, . 
and every other.individual of the.company was unconfcious> 
of it.. 
THE drawings made at Palmyra and Baalbec for the king,. 
were, in many parts of them, not advanced farther than the 
outlines,.which I had-carried with me, that, if leifure or con- 
finement fhould happen, I.might finifh them during my 
travels in-cafe of failure of. other employment, fo far at 
leaft, that, on my return through Italy, they: might be in:a 
ftate of receiving further improvement, which might carry. 
them to that perfection I have fince been enabled to con 
duct: 
