VOYAGE TO CYPRUS. 1 1 
of the Nile, after taking the latitude of its 
embouchure at noon. Our own latitude we 
found to be 31°. 25'; and our distance fi'om the 
mouth being two miles at the time of the 
observation, makes the junction of the Nile with 
the Mediterranean precisely 3 1". 27'. Our voyage » 
was attended by no circumstance worth notice. 
In the examination of the ship's log-book, we 
found only a repetition of the. same statement, 
of favourable breezes and fair weather. In the 
Archipelago and Mediterranean, during the sum- 
mer season, mariners may sleep. Their vessels 
glide over a scarcely ruffled surface, with an 
almost imperceptible motion. But in other 
months, no part of the main ocean is more 
agitated by winds, or exhibits, during calms, a 
more tremendous swell. It is indeed singular, 
that even fresh gales in the Mediterranean, 
throughout May and June, cause no turbulent 
waves. In a subsequent voyage to the coast 
of Syria, on board the Romulus frigate, we took 
in the royals, and carried reefs in the topsail, 
fore and aft, and also in the mizen, playing all 
the while at chess in the cabin, as if we had 
been sailing upon the Thames. 
About six o'clock in the evening of June the Appear- . 
third, we made land, north-east and by east, island. 
It fell to the author's lot to sfivc the first 
