. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt : during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission : also through Germany, Holland, &c. on the return to England : to which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal . earlier at Rosctta. It is observed by the inhabitants, that if the wind continues north-erly at the time when the Nile is at the highest it is a very favour-able circumstance, as by this means the Nile is kept high for seve-ral days,
. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt : during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission : also through Germany, Holland, &c. on the return to England : to which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal . earlier at Rosctta. It is observed by the inhabitants, that if the wind continues north-erly at the time when the Nile is at the highest it is a very favour-able circumstance, as by this means the Nile is kept high for seve-ral days, sometimes for ten or fifteen, with but a small diminutionof its waters, and the land receives all the benefit of the on the contrary, should the wind be westerly, and blow strong,it is extremely unfavourable; as, in this case, the Nile is seen tofall rapidly, and the land prevented from receiving the necessarymoisture from the waters of the inundation. An inhabitant of Cairo, long resident in Egypt, assured mc,that the Nile of the preceding year was the highest known forthirty years past. However, this year, 1801, it rose one digit higher. TRAVELS IN ASIATIC TURKEY, 1801. Oct. 24. No<v. 9. »3- »7« 24. 3»- 7-14. Feb. Nile fallen in the whole since 8th A,.. or, Feet. Which maiks uponthe column in theMekia Since the 8th Oct. 1801. Column inthe Mckias. r - _ Digit, 1716 2 320 It> 0 5 4 14 3 13 9 12 22 12 10 12 2 11 22 11 6 11 4 10 21 10 JO 8 10 4 10 0 From the foregoing statement and table it will be perceived, thatthe Nile rose, during the year 1801, about twenty-seven feet oneinch; and that it fell fifteen feet from the 8th October 1801, tothe 14th February 1802, when I was about to leave Cairo mi myway to Alexandria, and from thence to England. The mud de-posited by the Nile on the surface of the country during the inun-dation, is of a blackish, or deep lead colour ; but, when dry, b
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