284 FROM GRAND CAIRO 
CHAP, water is found to consist principally of Alumine 
. -^-- X in a state of great purity: it contains nearly 
half its weight of this substance ; the rest is 
carbonate of LimCy Water, Carbon, Iron oxide, 
Silex, and carbonate of Magnesia. The persons 
concerned in agriculture, in Egypt, regard it as 
a sufficient manure, without any addition of 
dung': this they reserve for other purposes, 
and principally for fuel. 
Remainsof Haviug rcceivcd information, from some 
Sa^is. ' ^ ^ Bedouin Arabs inhabiting the Delta, of Ruins on 
the spot marked by D'Anville as the situation 
of the antient City of SaYs, we determined to 
visit them. They are near to the village now 
called Sc'l Hajar, or Se el Hajar^: this name, 
literally translated, may signify " The antient 
Sa'isJ" These Ruins were not observed by the 
French during their residence in Egypt : they 
seem to have been ignorant even of their 
(1) " Agri ita pingue fiunt, ut sterooratione non egeant." f Prosper 
Alpinus.) Voy. Decade Egypt, torn. I. p. 9,19 . 
(2) Mr. Hamilton, perhaps more judiciously, writes the name of this 
jilace Sd-el'Haggar. fSee^gyptiaca, p.'S60. Land. I8O9.) It has 
been here written as nearly as possible to the manner in which the 
name is pronounced upon the spot. But the Arahs make one word 
of it; as Selhajar ; and some of them seemed to call it Silhajar. 
Egmont and Hcyman {vol. II. jy. 113. Land. 1759.) wrote it Sa el 
Hajer. 
