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as the Pyramides. There is another hole like the former on the right hand of Anothtr ho!e 
the Pit, and ftoptup in the fame manner, and that (they fay j goes as far as'" "fofenh'^ 
Suez, upon the Red-Sea ; but I believe r.either of the two. Turning then to the ^'^''l. 
right hand towards that hole, you come tea place which is the bottome of the fty^reaXs'as 
firlt Pit or ftory ; this place anfwers perpendicularly to the mouth of the Pit, faras iwi'^. 
* being equal to it in length and breadth, fo much of it as'is uncovered ; for after- 
wards it ftrikes off to the right hand under the Rock, to the place of the fécond 
ftory or fécond Pit, which is narrow, but deeper than the former : At the cop 
of this laft pit, in the afore-mentioned place that goes under the Rock, the 
Oxen are, which by means of wheels, draw a great quantity of water out of 
this narrow Pit or Well, which falling into a Channel, runs into a refervatory at 
one end of this place, and at the bottom of the firft Pit ; from whence at the 
fame time it is conveyed up on high by little buckets fattened to a rope, v/hich 
Oxen on the top continually keep going, by the means of other wheels that they 
turn, and then it is diftributed througn the Caftle in feveral pipes. One may 
go to the bottome of this narrow VVell, there being feveral fteps in it, by 
which fome have defcended ; but there is too much mud and flime in it. Now 
(what is moft wonderful) all this Pit or Well is made out of the hard Reck, to 
a prodigious breadth and depth, and the water of it is from a Spring, there 
being no Sprinyg (to the knowledge of man J in all (v4E^)'ff, but this, and that Oneiy two ' 
of Che Matharee, which we mentioned before. Many, and almoft all the Springs of 
Fraf^ think, that the water of Jofeph's Well, is the fame that is brought from ^'^''"^'-''^ '" 
the Nile in that fair Aquedud which comes by Old Caire to the Caftle : But we-^^^'^' 
informed ourfelves as to that of many in the Caftle, who allalfured us, that 
the water that is brought by that Aquedud, feryed only for the Bajhas Horfes, 
(as indeed it comes ftreight to the Stables in the Bafi^s Appartment,j and that 
it enters notât all into Jofepi/'s Well, which is in the Quarter of the janiz-aries ^ 
befides, the water of ^'f/f^/j's Well is fweetifn, (as the water of moft Wells is) 
and differs in tafte from that of the Nile. Jofeph^ s Ball is alfo to be feen in jofeph'sUaU, 
the Caftle, but much ruined ; it hath thirty lovely great Pillars of Thebaick- Thirty Pii.° 
jftone, and a good deal of Gold and Azure ftill to be feen on the feeling. Pretty lars of Thc- 
neartothat, is the Hall alfo of Jofcph's Szewavdy which is more curious than ^^^^^^ 
the other, but there remains ftill ten or twelve Pillars, fuch as thofe of ^/f/^/^'s ^^ff"^'^^^ ^ 
Hall. It is to be obferved, that all the fine things of the Antients that ftill The Hall of 
remain in <^gypt, are attributed to Jf/fp^ i and all that is ugly or infamous, Jo/cjj/i's ste- 
to Pharaoh. There is to be feen alfo in the Caftle, a large old Hall, well built, ward, 
the feeling whereof is in many places gilt and painted in Mofaick : In this Hall 
the Veft which is yearly fent to Mecha, is embroidered. Then you have many 
high Terraffes, from whence you may fee all the City of New Cî/Vf, the Old, 
BouUc, and a great way farther into the Defarts. The Dungeon or Arcane is rfof^nh'i Dun-" 
ftill remaining in the Caftle, Vv^hich Cthey fay) is the Prifon whereinto Jofeph içon. 
was caft, and where he interpreted the Dreams of the King's Butler and Baker ^ 
but nothing makes it confiderable, but the Name of Jofcph^ for it is a Prifoii 
compofed of fome dark, nafty and ftinking pafl'ages like Dungeons, by what I 
could difcover on the out-lîde ; and fome who have been Prifoners there, told 
me, that it is far worfe within ; and Prifoners are fo cruelly ufed there, that 
it deferves not to be lookM upon ^ nay, woe be to them who are Ihut up there j 
for fo foon as a Man is clapt up in it, his feet are put into the Stocks, and his 
body chained to the wall by a heavy Chain, where he rauft fiton his breech j 
then the Gaolers demand of him ten or twenty Piaftres, more or lefs, according ^j^^ 
as they judge him able, and if he give it not, they throw pales of water under (:,„e o'fPrîfo- 
his breech j and when he has feed the. firft, that he may not be abufed, next neis by the 
day others come into office, whoufe him in the fame manner, if he fee them Gaolersofthe 
not alfo as he did the former -, and in a word, this Prifon is a Hell upon Earth : ^''w^- 
People are put in there for fmall matters, as for Debt, or Batteries, efpecially 
the Chriftians and Jews. The A_^a of the Jamz,aries lives in the Caftle, 
and Commands there. 
Being come out of the Caftle, you muft go fee the Ba^ias Appartment, fepa- 
rated from the Caftle only by a Wall, and (I think) all together made but 
one Caftle before ; but the Turks makea diftindion betwixt them, calling the 
Bajliai Appartment, the 5fmj^/«oofthe Bajha j and^the reft, the Caftle 5 you 
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