490 A P P E N D I X, No. V. 
P. 479. The Mohammedans in general, and the Egyptians 
in particular, of whatever order, are very far from being 
regardlefs of the children. — On the contrary, they are ex- 
tremely anxious for their welfare. Perhaps their domeftic 
government may in fome degree afford an example of the 
happy medium between weak indulgence and unneceffary 
feverity j and parents daily experience the benefit of this their 
moderation. Very few inftances of ingratitude are feen in their 
children. Women offering to fell their children, it remained 
for Boyer to difcover. If reduced to defperation they might 
have defired rather to fee their offspring in flavery than pierced 
with bayonets ; but not the moft wretched of Egyptian mothers 
would ever have confented at any price to fell her child, even 
to Murad Bey. I rather imagine the writer miftaken as to 
this fa6t. 
A mo'it'i'e niids. "Would not men go half naked in Great Bri- 
tain if the climate permitted it ? — La peau degoiitante. In the 
populace of no nation are fewer cutaneous difeafes found, or 
the fkin more fmooth and healthy, than in the Egyptians. 
Fou 'illant dans des ruijfeaux^ &c. Are hedgers and ditchers in 
any country very poliihed and delicate ? — None are found 
raking the muddy channels but thofe whofe bufmefs it is to 
keep them clean. The houfes of the Alexandrines are neat, 
and comfortable according to their ideas, though perhaps they 
would appear gloomy to a French or Englifh man. 
P. 480. This is not quite corredt. On the Wefl of the "W. 
branch of the Nile, the arable lands are very narrow, but to the 
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