COAST OF EGYPT. 
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Upon our return to the fleet, Captain Larmour chap, 
accompanied Colonel Capper to the Admiral's s .y > 
ship ; and we revisited the Ceres, where we 
found our valuable friend Captain Russel, to 
the great grief of his officers and crew, and 
all who had the happiness of knowing him, in 
such a state of indisposition as put an end to 
every hope of his recovery. We had much dif- 
ficulty in obtaining a passage to Rosetla on board 
one of the cljerms, or boats belonging to the 
Nile; but, at length, permission was granted us 
to sail in one of these vessels, from the Eurus^ 
Captain Giiion, who treated us with that po- 
liteness we had so often experienced from the 
officers of the British Navy. We left the Bay 
of Abouldr, August the eighth, about ten o'clock 
A. M. As we drew near to the Rosetta mouth of Dangerous 
Passage of 
the Nile, we observed that the signal-boat was the Bar at 
the Mouth 
not out^ So many lives had been lost upon ofthe.vi/e. 
the bar by not attending to this circumstance*. 
(3) During the Egyptian Expedition, a boat with a signal-flag was 
always anchored on the outside of the mouth of the Nile, when the 
surf upon the bar was passable. 
(4) Scarcely a day elapsed, during our first visit to Rosetta, in which 
some lives were not sacrificed, owing to the inattention paid to the 
signal. It was even asserted, that the loss of men at the mouth of the 
A^ile, including those both of the army and navy> who were here 
sacrificed, was greater than the total of our loss in all the engagements 
that took place with the French troops in Egypt, 
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