1. The principal inclosure, consisting of apartments exclusively appropriated to the use of the monarch. 2. Principal rukkûba, or place of public audience. 3. The large court where public audiences are given. 4. Two gates, the one of the interior, the other of the great court; at both stand slaves, to refuse admittance when the Monarch is not in the humour to do justice; and the chief of them, to strike the greater awe, is the public executioner. 5. Exterior court in which the public officers leave their horses, and thence walk barefoot to the presence of their master. 6. External entrance, fronting the market-place. 7. A court with some apartments in it for faquirs, guards, and slaves. 8. A wide court where are some horses tied. 9. Rukkûba at the other entrance, where the Sultan gives audience, principally in winter, and where he would be less public. 10. Small court surrounding that rukkûba or shed. 11. Outer court where a mob assembles, and horses and slaves are in waiting. 12. Outer gate, called _Bab-el-burrâni_, as the great one is called _Bab-el-Gebeia_. 13. A multitude of small apartments reaching almost the whole length of the palace, where slaves are kept in confinement, as a punishment for misdemeanors; they are chained and fettered, and kept to hard labour, as dressing and tanning leather, making spear heads, &c. 14. A large court of irregular form filled with a multitude of small apartments for the women; they pass through the two gates marked _w_ to fetch water, but have no other outlet. Each of the principal women has a large apartment, surrounded by a number of smaller ones for her slaves; there are also apartments for cooking. 15. Granary, which is builded on a frame of timber, to prevent the accession of the _Termis_ or white ant. 16. Gate by which the women enter the Sultan’s apartment where that sex performs all offices. 17. Stable or court where the best horses are kept tied, and sheltered from the sun. The Eunuchs live in the interior, to be always near the Sultan; male slaves, wherever they can find a place. 18. Are the slaves’ apartments who guard the entrance. 19. A place where the faquirs read. The officers immediately attached to the court live in small inclosures on the outside of the fence, as that marked 20. The houses of the Meleks resemble this in miniature; those of inferior persons only of smaller size without divisions, and having fewer apartments. The exterior is an hedge of dry thorns, about ten feet thick, and as many high. THE END. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Volney has considered the walls of Alexandria as of antient structure. But D’Anville had before rejected that idea, and the fragments of columns, &c. worked into the masonry, shew that he is right.] [Footnote 2: Now supposed to have been erected in honour of Severus.]