EGYPT

AND MOHAMMED ALI;

&c. &c.

CHAPTER I.

ARRIVAL AT ALEXANDRIA FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE SHORE ARAB PILOTS-THE HOTELS- VIEW OF THE ANCIENT PORTTHE TARBOOSH-REMAINS OF THE ANCIENT CITY-HOUSES OF THE TURKS AND ARABS DATE GROVES THE CAMEL-ENVIRONS OF THE CITY- MALARIA· -EGYPTIAN SYSTEM OF IRRIGATION ILLUSTRATION OF SCRIPTURE A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES SCARABEI-FEMALE ORNAMENTS-ARTICLES OF

A LADY'S TOILETTE -SYMBOL OF CHRISTIANITY -SAKTI OF TYPHONOSIRIS, ISIS, AND APIS.

Thursday, Nov. 8. 1832.

I. THE satisfaction with which I approached the shores of Egypt, over which history, both ancient and modern, has cast so remarkable a degree of glory, was very much heightened by a feeling of security, a sense of danger removed; it having been more than once doubtful, during the voyage from Leghorn, whether we should ever arrive or not, so boisterous and contrary were the winds, and so tempestuous was the sea. On the preceding day, the level sandy coast of Africa, west of the Arab's Tower, had been for a short time visible; but it being found that we