TO ROSETTA. 281 
Upon our arrival at Bulac, we met Lord chap. 
Hutchinsons brother upon the quay, and two ^— v — ' 
other English officers, who had just arrived with 
despatches for the Grand Fizier, containing news 
of the capitulation then pending between our 
Commander-in-chief and General Menou, for 
the surrender of Alexandria. As they were 
unable to speak the language of the country, we 
sent our interpreter to hire a party of Arabs to 
conduct them to the English head-quarters in 
Cairo. 
At six o'clock p. M. we embarked again, and, rassage 
down the 
having lowered the sails, committed our djerm NUe. 
to the rapidity of the river. Its course might 
rather be described as a torrent than as a cur- 
rent. Although a strong contrary wind pre- 
vailed during the whole of our voyage down the 
Nile, we descended with even greater rapidity 
than we had sailed in coming from Rosetta. 
The w^ater in the Nilomeler of Rhonda had risen 
nine feet during the month oi August: at this 
time it wanted only two inches of elevation to 
cover entirely the whole of the Corinthian co- 
lumn on which the height of the inundation is 
measured, and it was expected to rise yet for 
twenty days. The great heats had evidently 
subsided ; although the mercury in Fahrenheit's 
