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APPENDIX, No. V. 
No. V. 
Some remarks on the account of Egypt^ contained in the recent 
correjpondence of the French oficers who accompanied Buona- 
parte to that country. The work referred to is intitled^ Paris, 
PENDANT l'aNNEE I798. P^rPELTIER. Fo/s. XIX. and XX. 
V^OL. 19, page 455. The diftance from Cairo to the 
catarad: is about 36oGeog. miles. The Nile is never an impe- 
tuous torrent, nor does it ever overflow its banks in the whole 
courfe from AlTuan to Kahira, but is admitted at proper times 
into the tranfverfe channels prepared for it. 
. P. 457. The Arabs, it is evident, would not build walls 
of much greater extent than the habitations they propofed to 
defend. A very fmall part of thefe being now filled, fliews 
that the decay the city has undergone fince the Turks became 
pofTeffed of it, has even been greater than what it fuftained 
from the time of Severus to the Saracenic conquefts. 
P. 459. Old Kahira is not Foftat, but Mifr el attike, fur- 
ther South, , .hr-i 
Lettre de Boyer, ~ 
t ?ori 
P. 475. I doubt whether any one of the towers about 
Alexandria would contain 700 men. 
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