<56 T 11 AV E LS T O T HE EAST, 
From Cairo to the Egyptian 
P Y R A M IDS. 
I Left Cairo at four o’clock in the afternoon of the 
17 th, accompanied by a Janiffary and my fer- 
vant. I had befides for companions a traveller, born 
in Aleppo, and bred at the court of the German 
Emperor, who was entitled a Baron, furnamed Bur - 
kana, and had lately arrived from Rome; a Geor- 
gian Qiriltian, who was a phyfician here, and a 
Jew Rabbi from Nuremberg. We ail rid on alfes. 
After we had rid through the miferable, narrow, 
foggy, and unpaved ftreets of Cairo, we came into 
a pretty fpacious and uninhabited plain, which re- 
fembled a little defart; but with this difference, that 
fome Sycomore and Tamarilks adorned this dry and 
fandy plain with their green leaves. 
We afterwards came to Old Cairo, which is a 
fuburb to Cairo. We faw fome large, and accord- 
ing to the tafte of this country, handfome houfes, as 
we paffed by, which are the fummer habitations of 
the Turkilh grandees. Adjoining to each was a 
large, handfome, and fpacious garden, with fine trees 
of Caffia, Acacia, Plaintain, Dates, Tamarilk, Senfitive 
plants, and many others, but all in diforder, being 
entirely left to nature. Thefe feats were fituated 
