272 GRAND CAIRO. 
Shlbrecki — Birds — Arrival at Rosetta — Mr. Hammer 
sails for England— S/a/e of Rosetta ai this season of the 
year, 
CHAP. After our return to Cairo, we visited the 
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library of the Propaganda Society, in a monas- 
of the Pro- tery belonging to the xMissionaries, and found a 
pagan nts. ^,q[\q^^^q^ q^ books as little worth notice as that 
of the Franciscans at Jerusalem. It consisted 
wholly of obscure wTitings on points of faith, 
the volumes being mixed together in a confused 
manner. From their appearance, it was evi- 
dent they had not been opened by their present 
possessors. We were shewn some drawings 
of the Costumi of Cdiroy which had been made 
by one of the Monks, very ill done, but worth 
seeing, as they contained a representation of 
every thing remarkable in the manner of the 
inhabitants of this city. The church belonging 
to the convent is kept in very neat order. The 
Copts have a place allowed them for baptism, 
near to the altar. The Coptic language is now 
preserved only in their manuscripts. We pur- 
chased a folio manuscript copy of the Gospels, 
finely written, which had the Arabic on one side, 
and the Coptic on the other. In the Coptic 
service of the church, the prayers are read in 
