TRAVELS 
I N 
AFRICA, 
E G r P T, AND S r R I J, 
CHAP. I. 
ALEXANDRIA. 
Antient Walls and Rums — The two Ports — Refer vo'irs — Vegeta- 
tion —■ Antiquities Population — Government — Commerce — 
ManufaSlures — Anecdote of recent Hifory, 
E tranfit from the coafts of Britain to thofe of Egypt 
was marked by nothing that can intereft or amufe, unlefs it be 
the contraft between the phenomena of winter on the former, 
with thofe which ftrike the view on approaching the latter. A 
fea voyage is always tedious, except to the merchant and the 
mariner ; and therefore, though our's was attended with every 
favourable circumftance, and occupied no more than twenty-fix 
days, there is fcarcely any thing relative to it that can afford 
entertainment in the recital. I arrived in Egypt on the loth 
of January 1792, 
B Alexandria 
