P. 480. This is not quite correct. On the West of the W. branch of the Nile, the arable lands are very narrow, but to the East they extend along the road to Bilbeis and Salehich. The villages indeed are ill built; yet a house is here of little use but as a shelter from the sun. One of our neat, snug, brick houses, covered with red tiles, would be absolutely intolerable in Egypt. They are poor because the government is oppressive, not because they are uninclined to labour. The muddy appearance of the Nile water is no motive for any Egyptian to abstain from drinking it; nor is any other circumstance attending it, except its being polluted. Water, according to their law, is not polluted by a camel, a horse, or an ox drinking of it; but it is by a dog’s drinking, or a man washing his hands in it. 481. Boyer seems to have been too hasty in numbering the inhabitants—400,000 seems to me about one-fourth too much. Ibid. The streets of Kahira are narrow, but inconveniences would attend their being wider. The houses are by no means without order: two long streets, as is seen in Niebuhr’s plan, bisect the city longitudinally and parallel with the river. The streets are often rectilinear, though they are by no means rectangular. The ecclesiastics all read, and many of them write. All merchants of any consequence read, and many write. Often their female offspring are taught to read. The Copts most of them read and write. Who then regards the arts of reading and writing with admiration? The soldiers, the peasants, and the laborious part of the populace are ignorant enough of reading and writing, but by no means wonder or are astonished at what they see daily practised. _Berthier’s Letter, 2 Fructidor._ P. 536. All Egypt, according to this writer, is in submission to the French troops; but it appears the farthest post the latter have occupied is at four leagues from Cairo, where there is an entrenched camp; then there remain 130 leagues yet to subdue. P. 599. It seems to me impossible that the old port could contain half the number of vessels here mentioned, viz. 300. —. This place, whose name is so murdered, is spelled Jibbrîsh. P. 603. In Julien’s letter, I know not how the flag could be placed on the walls of _the celebrated city Thebes_, when all that remains of that city is the ruins of public buildings, that formed a part of its interior.—_Often join, &c._ There is one annual feast dedicated to the Prophet, called _Mewlet-en-Nebbi_, which lasts one day; and one feast also annual in honour of cutting the _Chalige_, which also lasts one day. How did the soldiers then often celebrate them?