and gardens. We continued our delightful course, 
accompanied by thirteen or fourteen other djermes, 
which, with our own, appeared to form a little fleet. 
In a bend of the river, having the wind before us, 
all the sailors of our vessels leapt on shore, on the left 
bank, and towed them with ropes, until they came to 
another bend; when, gaining the wind in our rear, we 
sailed along, and arrived at Rosetta at noon. I landed 
immediately, and went to lodge in a house that had 
been prepared for me by an Arab, one of my friends. 
The town of Rosetta, which is called by its inhabi- 
tants Raschid, is situated upon the left bank of the 
Nile: it is very long, but not very broad. Its houses, 
like others of the same country, are of bricks, four or 
five stories high; which, united with the great number 
of windows and fine towers, give it a fine appearance. 
If we add to this picture the neighbourhood of a great 
river, and beyond it the view of the Delta, the fineness 
of the climate, and the excellent productions of nature 
and art, it will appear that Rosetta would be a delight- 
ful abode, if man did not counteract the beneficent 
dispositions of Providence. 
Rosetta has for its governor an Aga, who is an 
Arnaut, named Ali Bey. He has generally three 
hundred soldiers of his nation under him. There 
happened to be here a Turk, also named Ali Bey, the 
son of an ancient Pacha; so that we were three of the 
same name at Rosetta. 
This town is the residence of a Greek bishop. The 
archbishop of Mount Sinai, who was going from Cairo 
to Constantinople, was here; as was also the Kiahia, 
or lieutenant general of the Captain Pacha, who was 
following the same route; so that the town presented 
the appearance of a small court. 
