The following analyses of the specimens brought home by the first Khedivial Expedition, were made at the Citadel, Cairo, by the well-known chemist, Gastinel-Bey, in conjunction with M. George Marie, the engineer attached to the Expedition:-- Analyses (Mm. Gastinel-bey and George Marie of Cairo) of Rocks Brought Home by the First Khedivial Expedition. (All by Voie Sèche.) Gold (assay on 100 grammes)-- 1. In basalt (lava?). 2. In serpentine. (None in white quartz.) Silver-- 1. In Filon Husayn, 1/1000 = 265 to 300 francs per ton (very good). 2. In red sands, 1/10,000 (= 20 francs per ton). 3. In scoriæ, traces. (None in white quartz or in the black sands.) Copper-- 1. In ‘Aynúnah quartz, 4 1/2 per 100. 2. In Filon Husayn, 2 1/2 to 3.40 per cent. Filon Husayn = Titaniferous iron, 86.50 Silica, 10.10 Copper, 3.40. 3. In chloritic slate, 1.40 per cent. (Chloritic slate of Makná' = Silica, 90.50 Carbonate of lime, 5.60 Oxide of iron, 2.30 Copper, 1.40.) Sulphur (Jebel el-Kibri't of El-Muwaylah)-- 4 per cent. above. 9 ditto below. Lead everywhere. Calamine (zinc) very rich. Part II. The March Through Central and Eastern Midian. Chapter IX. Work in and Around El-Muwaylah. We arrived at El-Muwaylah too late to meet the Hajj-caravan, which, home returning, had passed hurriedly through the station on February 9th. This institution has sadly fallen off from its high estate of a quarter of a century ago. Then commanded by an Amir el-Hajj--"Lord of the Pilgrimage"--in the shape of two Pashas (generals), it is now under the direction of a single Bey (colonel). The "True Believers," once numbering thousands, were reduced in 1877-78 to some eight hundred souls, of whom only eighty appeared at El-Muwaylah; and the peculiar modification of modern days is that the Mahmal is escorted only by paupers. Yet the actual number of the Hájis who stand upon Jebel ‘Arafát, instead of diminishing, has greatly increased. The majority prefer voyaging to travelling; the rich hire state-cabins on board well-appointed "Infidel" steamers, and the poor content themselves with "Faithful" Sambúks. Indeed, it would seem that all the present measures, quarantines of sixty days (!) and detention at wretched Tor, comfortless enough to make the healthiest lose health, are intended to discourage and deter "palmers" from proceeding by land. If this course be continued, a very few years will see the venerable institution represented by only the Mahmal and its guard. The late Sa'id Pasha of Egypt once consigned the memorial litter per steam-frigate to Jeddah: the innovation saved Ghafr ("blackmail") to the Bedawin; but it was not approved of by the Moslem world.