Sepulchres of -the Mummies. 
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°ould fee, by its hair, colour and appearance, that 
fame common fort of dogs is yet in Egypt, that 
hath been there fome thoufand years ago; and that 
Uone of the many varieties we have in Europe have 
p e en tranfplantcd here. Dogs had then a better lot 
ln Egypt than now, as they are accounted unclean, 
Unworthy to come under the roof of a Mahometan, 
hilled if they touch his cloaths, and forced to live in 
*ne open air on the legacies left them by the chari- 
J?hle people and alms, or feek their food from what 
fortune throws in their way. I have been in- 
armed, that the French Jefuit Sicara, who for the 
jie of antiquities travelled with much attention 
ome years ago in Upper Egypt, had there found 
:in 0x embalmed in the fame manner, which he fent 
° Ver to Paris. We left the burial place of irra- 
Uonal beads, and proceeded farther to that of man. 
his is not done without fome danger of lofing the 
f Va y> efpecially if one ventures too far in the paf- 
* a ges. On both fides of this paffage are niches, in 
• hich Mummies in their coffins are preferved, iland- 
!n S upright on their feet. The niche is clofed up 
'? tri a wall, fo that nothing can be difcerned on 
l he outfide. 
, ten o’clock in the morning, we returned from 
e * e fubterranean places, which afforded me lefs 
^ af ure than the open plain I faw around them, 
j f ere I fearched for natural curiofities. The infers 
j ound in the fand were the greateft advantage 
j rea P e d from this journey. I found fome, which 
g am Purfuaded no naturaliff had ever before feen. 
t j 0l ^ e °f thofe I found were known to me. Of 
I 'k c °il C( ded within a fhort time fix fpecies of 
1 ullulas (Dragon fly) four Cicada?, and fome 
w'U J ?E° cu fts and Graflioppers). Of what ufe 
j K VJ l 5 /. W1 VVlldl LUC IS a 
1 d defart, filled with burning fand? Can any living 
creature 
