THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. § 



In pairing, I would fain have gone afhore to fee if there 

 were any remains of the celebrated temple of Paphos ; but 

 a voyage, fuch as I was then embarked on, flood in need of 

 vows to Hercules rather than to Venus, and the mailer, fear- 

 ing to lofe his paiTage, determined to proceed. 



Many medals (fcarce any of them good) are dug up ira 

 Cyprus ; filver ones, of very excellent workmanihip, are found 

 near Paphos, of little value in the eyes of antiquarians, being 

 chiefly of towns of the fize of thofe found at Crete and 

 Rhodes, and all the iflands of the Archipelago. Intaglios there 

 are fome few, part in very excellent Greek flyle, and gene- 

 rally upon better Hones than ufual in the iflands. I have £een 

 fome heads of Jupiter, remarkable for bufliy hair and beard,, 

 that were of the moll exquifite workman fliip, worthy of any 

 price. All the inhabitants of the ifland are fubject to fevers r 

 but more efpecially thofe in the neighbourhood of Paphos, 



We left Lernica the 1 7th of June, about four o'clock in* 

 the afternoon. The day had been very cloudy, with a wind 

 at N. E. which frefhened as we got under weigh. Our mailer^ 

 a feaman of experience upon that coafl, ran before.it to the 

 weftward with all the fails he could fet. Trufling to a lign 

 that he faw, which he called a bank, refembling a dark 

 cloud in the horizon, he guefied the wind was to be from., 

 that quarter the next day. . 



Accordingly, on the 18th, a little before twelve o'clock, 

 a very freih and favourable breeze came from the N. W. 

 and we pointed our prow directly, as we thought, upon 

 Alexandria. 



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