Q ROSETTA. 
CHAP, to China. Apricots of a small size, the produce 
J of standard-trees, together with the fruit of the 
banana', sugar-canes, pumpkins, lettuces, and 
cucumbers, are common in the markets of 
Rosetta, at this season of the year. 
To a traveller in Egypt there is nothing more 
remarkable than the scarcity of those antiquities 
which appear to be so common in all the 
Museums of Europe. From Rosetta, the French 
had removed almost every thing of this kind ; 
but their acquisitions were by no means so 
remarkable as might have been expected. We 
found only a few granite pillars remaining : these 
might be seen in the streets, and they were 
the only antiquities of the city. The famous 
Triiinguar TriUnguar Inscription, preserved upon a mass of 
ntcrip ton. g^^^-^^^ perhaps improperly called the Rosetta 
Stone, which afterwards became a subject of 
contention between General Menou and our 
Commander-in-chief, during the capitulation of 
Alexandria, was not found in Rosetta. Its dis- 
covery was first officially announced by an 
article in the '^ Coufier d'Egypte,'' or Cairo Ga- 
zette^: it is there described as the result of an 
excavation made in digging for the fortifications 
(1) Musa Sapientum, 
(2) Da.ted " Rosette, le 2 Frvclidor, An 7." 
