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as direct upon it as they could lie. But if, as Dr Shaw thinks,, 

 they made the Pyramids firfl, I would wifh to know in what 

 manner they conducted their navigation to come down up- 

 on. Gceza. 



Their vefTels go only before the wind, and they had a 

 ilrong fleady gale almoft directly in their teeth. 



They had no current to help them ; for they were in ilill 

 water ; and if they did not take down their large yards and 

 fails, they were fo top-heavy, the wind had fa much purchafe 

 upon them above, that there was no alternative, but, either 

 with fails or without, they muft make for Upper Egypt ;.; 

 and there, entering into the iiril practicable califh that was> 

 full, get into the main ftream. 



But their dangers were not ilill over, for, going clowrk 

 with a violent current, and with their Handing, rigging up, 

 the moment they touched the banks, their mails and yards 

 would go overboard, and, perhaps, the veffel Have to pieces. 



Nothing would then remain, but for fafety^s fake to ilrike: 

 their mails and yards, as they always do when they go down, 

 the river ; they muft lie broadfide forernoft, the ilrong wind! 

 blowing perpendicular, on one iide of the veffel, and the vio- 

 lent current pufhing it in a contrary direction on the other j, 

 while a man, with a long oar, balances the advantage the wind; 

 has of the ilream, by the hold it has of the cabin and upper, 

 works. 



This would moil infallibly be the cafe of the voyage from. 

 Maueratis, unlefs in itriving to fail by tacking, (a manoeuvre 



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