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8°mg fr°m place to place than Cairo or Alexandria. 
1 he ftreets are almoft all full of alfes. A perfon 
^ho chufes not to walk, mounts the afs he likes 
heft, and gets on apace. For one, two, at the moft 
three para, he may ride through the whole town, 
i he Moors own thefe beafts, and value them high 
enough. Few would imagine that they pay more 
or uch a miferable beaft, than a fine horfe cofts in 
•Europe or here. The perfon who owned that I 
rode on, faid ft coft him 20 ducats, and that he 
would not take double the money for it, as it fup- 
ported him. In the place I had hitherto refided, I 
nad walked m gardens of Lemon, Orange, Fig and 
Mulberry trees. I had feen whole fields filled with 
ie hnelt vines. 1 had travelled through forefts of 
n e-trees, and refted myfelf in the agreeable 
groves of Cyprefles ; but I faw not one of thefe 
fill j- Series in Egypt. Here I met a garden 
“lied with other forts of plants, which the Creator 
Hath given to the Southern countries. Palm or 
•Uate trees now defended us with their agreeable 
made. I began immediately to enquire of the in- 
1 ants what they knew concerning the qualities 
this vegetable, in order to encreafe the hiftory of 
a em ’ wblcb is yet fo defective amongft Botanifts : 
^whether they knew any thing about a male and 
Fre ? - the Dates > and their fecundation? But the 
di„^ C • m terpreter interrupted my enquiries by 
chamgmg the difeourfe. * 1 
Ai_ v he j° th ’ at TW0 °’ clock in the morning, I left 
into thl na ^ a lictIe W At 12 P’tlock I came 
Where ir ?Pe v m§ ° f the Nile that leads t0 Hofetta, 
Were it fi.a J uc a '-annon {hot over, The fliores 
Ud the / di y an d covered with fand ; but farther 
fine ° Untr y> wb i c ^ is level, they were full of 
m Cre * s ’ -1 he fliores afterwards became nar- 
E 3 rower* 
