Pike of Constantinople, called _Draa Stambuli_, Arab.; Turk. _Hindazi_, is used for selling cloth and silk. It amounts to twenty-seven inches. Pike of Kahira, used for other articles = eighteen inches. =CONTENTS.= * * * * * CHAP. I. ALEXANDRIA. _ANTIENT walls and ruins — The two ports — Reservoirs — Vegetation — Antiquities — Population — Government — Commerce — Manufactures — Anecdote of recent history._ Page 1 CHAP. II. SIWA. _Attempt to penetrate to the Temple of Jupiter Ammon — Route and provisions — Animals of the desert — Occurrences on the road — Description of Siwa — Antient edifice — Intercourse with other countries — Produce and manners — Attempt to penetrate farther into the desert — Return._ 14 CHAP. III. FROM ALEXANDRIA TO RASHID. _Abu-kîr — Fertility of the country — Description of Rashîd — Journey to Terané — Fué, Deîrut, and Demenhûr._ 30 CHAP. IV. TERANE AND THE NATRON LAKES. _Government of Terané — Carlo Rossetti — The trade in natrôn — Manners — Journey to the Lakes — Observations there — Remarks on natrôn — Coptic convents and MSS. — Proceed to Kahira._ 36 CHAP. V. KAHIRA. _Topography — Government of Kahira and of Egypt — Pasha and Beys — Mamlûks — Birth, education, dress, arms, pay — Estimate of their military skill — Power and revenue of the Beys — The Chalige — The NILE — Mosques, baths, and okals — Houses — Manners and customs — Classes of people — Account of the Copts._ 45 CHAP. VI. KAHIRA. _Commerce — Manufactures — Mint — Castle and well — Misr-el-Attîké and antient mosque — Antient Babylon — Fostat and Bûlak — Jizé — Tomb of Shafei — Pleasure-boats — Charmers of serpents — Magic — Dancing girls — Amusements of Ramadân — Coffee-houses — Price of provisions — Recent history of Egypt — Account of the present Beys._ 74 CHAP. VII. KAHIRA. _Brief abstract of the history of Africa in general, and Egypt in particular, under the domination of the Arabs._ 93 CHAP. VIII. UPPER EGYPT.