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8 Travels into the Levant. Part 
there is no light ; perhaps it ftood over fome Ciftern which at prefent is^opt 
up. Ten or twelve fteps from that Tower, there is a Ciriern, where there 
are two Stories of Pillars, and in many other places there are Cifterns fuppor- 
Ciftenu umi ^'^^'''^ manner ; fo that it would feem that moil part of the Town 
Pillars. ' hath ftood upon Pillars. 
obeliskj. A few. ftcps from thence there are to be feen two Obelisks of Thebaick Stones, 
one of which lies buried in the Earth, nothing of it but the foot appearing ; the 
other is ftanding, but the Earth muft needs be railed very high in that place, 
for in all probability that Obelisk is upon its pedeftal, of which nothing is to 
be feen, nay not the foot of the Obelisk it felf, 
Oppofite to this place, the Wall turns again towards the Eaft, and with 
the other plane makes almoft a returning right Angle, and afver a confiderabls 
fpace doubles inwards, making a fquare ; but an hundred paces farther ic 
runs out again a pretty way towards the North-Eaft, and ftretches North- 
wards ; then making a fharp Angle, it points betwixt Eaft and. South-Eaft- 
ward, as far as the Gate of RoJJkte, after which itmaketh an obtufe Angle and 
reaches along betwixt the Weft and South-Weft. Along that fide runs the 
Kbalis ; and a little farther is the Palm Mareotis psLT^dld unto it, which is fo 
broad that one can hardly fee Land on the other Mq of ir. When we come 
over againft the Pillar of Fomfey^ which ftands to the South of the Town on 
th\s-(^dc the KLilis, we find the Gate del Pepe ov Sitre, which looks to the 
South-Weft and Weft ; and then the Wall which is doubled inwards in this 
place, to make the Gate, continues on towards the South-Weft and Weft, 
as far as a New Caflle, which feems to be very ftrong, and near to which, a 
little from the Gate del Fepe, the Kbalis enters under the Wall into the con- 
duits of the City, from which all have Water into their Cifterns by means of 
Pot/JJèra^ues. 
Afterwards the Wall turns ftreight North, and pafie^ along the old Harbour, 
Aqueduds. oppofite to which, on the right hand, are to he (ten the yîi^ueJucîs, which 
heretofore conveyed the Water of the Khalis from the Calfle of the old Har- 
bour, to Bouquer. Then the Wall runs ftreight betwixt North-Eaft and North 
to the Water-Gate. We were two hours in going the compafs of Alexan- 
driaj which reaches in length from Eaft to Weft, but is very narrow. 
CHAP. 
Of what happened in the voay from Alexandria to 
Say de, W/rm Sayde Damafcus. - 
Departure T Parted from Alexandria on Thur f day t\\et\VCmy eighth of Fei'ra/S'r/ about 
from Alexan- X nine of the clock in the morning in a Germe or open Boat ; but feeing the 
clria. Wind was ealie, and that we were becalmed in the afternoon, we put in a- 
gain to the Harbour oïBouejuer, which we had palFed. On Board of that Germe 
there was a Corfar of Barbary who had long followed that courfe, and had a 
Ship of his own in Alexandria ; That man who had feen a great many French 
, men, nay and had had feveral of them in his power, would not believe that I 
was one ; butaflured me that one would always take me for a Levantine, ra- 
ther than a French man I was not at all troubled to find that I was io well 
difguiled, for in travelling through Turky, it is good to have fb much of the 
Air of the Countrey, that we may not be taken for ftrangers,unlefswepleafe. 
Next day about five of the clock in the morning we Cet out, and about ten of 
iheChmnel clock entred the Channel of Nile, where we found a man in a Boat, who 
fl/ Nile P*^"^ in our way : though there be Canes fixed at feveral diftances to fhew 
where the Shelves are, yet there is need of luch a man for a guide ; becaufe the 
River bringing a great deal of fand with it, the pafiages are daily choaked up, 
which 
