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CHAP. VIL 



Arrives at Syene — Goes to fee the CataraSl — Remarkable Tombs-— 4be 

 Jituat'ton of Syene — The Aga propofes a Vifiito Deir and Ibrim—Tbe 

 Author returns to Kenne, 



WE failed on the 20th, with the wind favouring us, till 

 about an hour before fun-rife, and about nine o'clock 

 came to an anchor on the fouth end of the palm groves, 

 and north end of the town of Syene, nearly oppofite to an 

 ifland in which there is a fmall handfome Egyptian temple, 

 pretty entire. It is the temple of * Gnuphis, where formerly 

 was the Nilometer. 



Adjoining to the palm trees was a very good comfort- 

 able houfe, belonging to Huflein Schourbatchie, the man 

 that ufed to be fent from that place to Cairo, to receive the 

 pay of the janmaries in garrifon at Syene, upon whom too I 

 had credit for a very fmall fum. 



The reafons of a credit in fuch a place are three : Firft, 

 in cafe of licknefs, or purchafe of any antiquities : Secondly, 

 that you give the people an idea (a very ufeful one) that 

 you carry no money about with you : Thirdly, that your 



money 



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* Strabo, lib. xvii. p. 944.. 



