APPENDIX, No. IV. 
487 
Englifh edit. Vol. I. p. 216. Volney fays, that when there are 
no lliips at Suez, that town has no other inhabitants than the 
Mamluk governor, and a garrifon, confifting of twelve or 
fourteen perfons. — In Suez are twelve or thirteen mofques, 
which could never have been deligned for a garrifon of fo few 
perfons. There are alfo feveral cofFee-houfes. In truth the 
inhabitants are not numerous, but there are four or five confi- 
derable merchants conftantly refiding there, who have their 
correfpondents at Kahira, and in the towns of Arabia, and 
condud; the commerce between Egypt and India. There is 
confequently a proportionate number of their dependents, and 
perfons who manage commercial affairs of a lefs confiderable 
kind. There are fhip-buiiders, and feveral other artificers ; a 
large khan or okal where merchandize is lodged ; fome Greek 
Chriftians conftantly refiding there ; Mohammedan ecclefiaftics, 
and others ; and a number of fifliermen and people more imme- 
diately connected with the fea. The population is reftrained 
by the difficulty of procuring water, fcarcity of provifions, and 
other inconveniences ; but invariably much exceeding the efti- 
mate here given. 
P. 263. Volney remarks, that the horizon is every where flat^ 
even in the Upper Egypt, and refers for a proof of his affertion 
to Norden's Plates, which demonftrate precifely the reverie. 
The faCt is true indeed as to Lower Egypt, but from Kahira 
upward to Affuan there is only a very fmall fpace where the 
view is not terminated by the mountains, of various afpedts, 
on each fide*. 
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