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Received January 3, 1766. 
VIII. A Letter from Edward Wortley 
Montagu, Ef quire , F. R . S. to William 
Watfon, M. D. F. R. S. containing an 
Account of his Journey from Cairo, in 
Egypt, to the Written Mount ains > in the 
Defart of Sinai. 
S I R, 
Read March t 3, TT T is with a good deal of difficulty 
that I have prevailed upon myfelf to 
write to you, for, as coming now to Italy was quite 
unforef'een, and I am immediately going back to the 
Eaff, I have not my journal with me, but luckily 
have the famous infcriptions. I am fenfible every 
paper 1 fend to the Royal Society expofes more and 
more my incapacity. However, as thefe infcriptions 
are much wanted, I cannot avoid fending them. I 
ihall only fpeak to fome of the points the bifhop of 
Clogher mentions ; but cannot avoid being now and 
then a little prolix. 
I fet out from Cairo, by the road known by the 
name of Tauriche Beni Ifrael, Road of the Children 
of Ifrael. After twenty hours travelling, at about 
three miles an hour, we palled, by an op, ning in the 
mountains on our right hand, the mountains Maxattee. 
There are two more roads, one to the northward of 
this, which the Mecca pilgrims go, and one to the 
fouth, 
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