EGYPT, AND SYRIA. 8r 
An ifland is fituated in the middle of the river, nearly oppo- 
fite Bulak, where Murad Bey has a kind of fummer-houfe, or 
place of retirement. Here are alfo feveral gardens. On the 
oppofite coaft is Embabil, a village, where cows are kept, that 
furnifli excellent butter. 
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Farther to the fouth, and nearly oppofite Mifr-el-Attike, is 
Jiza, a confiderable tov/n, fortified by Ifmail Bey, who alfo 
built a palace there, completed and fmce inhabited by Murad 
Bey, by whom has been eftablifhed a foundery, conftrud'ed by 
a Zanthiote, who has embraced Mohammedifm. I found fix 
mortars and twenty-three cannon, fome of them however 
almoft ufelefs. Three of the mortars and fix of the field- 
pieces, caft by that Zanthiote, were excellent, confidering the 
place, the inftruments, and the workmen. The guns are 
twenty-four, eighteen, and twelve pounders. Thefe are in 
referve, and the Bey has a larger number mounted, in different 
parts of the fort. The walls of Jiza are of great extent, and 
have only one gate to the country ; they are ten feet high, 
three feet thick, and have fix half-moons : but are only fit to 
refift cavalry, the original intention in raifing them. Murad 
Bey has fuffered the iron work about the loop-holes, &c. to 
be plundered or ruined. 
The palace is in the fouthern quarter of Jiza, clofe to the 
water. It has numerous apartments for the Mamluks, and 
every convenience for eafe or luxury. 
M Murad 
