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to Whiten Linnen all Alone; which I try’d not, but we Disour Handkercbief in ir, which kcpt ehe Scent of Soap for 4. or y Da)'s-There are a grearNumber of Christian Copbtbes in that Country, ^ Chave many Monasteries ar d Anclent Cburches , but Poor. We iiave P^many 'Places, where was neither Priest nor Church : but only the P001' i cple, like Sheep wirhout a Shepherd.

Pm-phyr 'y "XLIV. It May be (I think ) taken for granted, that there is no^lLrs/«°jEgypf; ry or ratherRock of Vorphyry in all the Loiver Parts of cAigypt: For fo(>y £>r. Rob Hun- as ,-^g jvT^ g Over-stolas, is Pcrfect Soil • And the Boundaries of this 0 ^t-.igton- n- l ’ flavi ('which are never 10 Miles from the Channel, that I law, gener 3*7

fcarrte j of it, and in forne Places but a Mile or two, the Delta, stili eJ£cepted, which is Universitlly CcveFd, all but the North-CAe to the ^and a Little to the Eaft for forne Miles above Darmata) are Rising Hi^ sSani ; beyond which is Perfect Defart , upon the Africk fide th eLybW'[Higher South I have been told, there are Recks nearer the River, and 1forne Places Streighten it: butj Under thefe Sands, is a yUlding Stent, 1,0much harder than Chalk , tho* not so White, and very easily Manag’d sat the Mummies , Deep Spacious Vaulfs which were the old Reposttoriesthe Dead. And the like may be also find of thole Cells or Sepulchers wh lCare Hewn purely out of the Rocky Earth \ Mde on the South of Alexan^lAlbeit nearer theSea, there are Stones of a Harder kind, and wich wb lC ^they Build : but by their Mouldring away, as appears by the RttnaiiK 0 .Houfes within the (Palis of the City, ’tis plain they can’t Endurethe 7 ^ther ; which is fufficiently Corroding there : The Iron which once Pl^their Thick Wooden Qatet being mostly Ealenaivay, and the DeepraSlers, upon the sides of thefe very Porphyry-Pillars, exceedingty .,faed. Indeed about Memphis, i. e, by the Pyramids , they have a Milder A ls ’and the Hieroglyphicks Cut in thefe Stones will last well enough, tillfhail be rcmov’d into a Rougher Tut then they 'II Crizde and Scale, äS 4found by fad Experience. For havmg procur’d Fcur Stoms , the b eMark’d with tbose Figures of Antiyuity I could meet with, and ftnt tb £ jdown to Alexandria in order to their Transportation for F.nglani ; Ithem upon my 2d Voyage into Mgjpt very much injur’d, being put intoCußom häufe-yard (wbere they lie still Emhargo’d,) by the Aga. Put ffarther into the Country, there are Mountains of Harder Stone:Fhtrian, now the Desart of St. Macarius, and not far from the Lake ' vllC (the Latroon or rrue Nitre Incrustates upon the Top of the Water, theremany; and forne of them not utterly Unlike Porphyr]. That whieb rea r£resembles ir; Colour 5 tho’ not its Cenststence, is the Fein that produces 1Eagle-iti.ne ; of which there are many in the Bahr Batama, a great Sad >Valley: But Pnefe Stones are of a different Complexion from Po y phjry-However I cannot Pronounce that there is ncJ Porphry hereabouts • *intheChief Monafiery of the 4, nowRemaining (of 3 66, as many äS {Days in the Longest Year) Dedicated to the BleJJed Virgin ; the two < 5 ^^,which fecure their Entrance, are of the Like, if not the very Same Sd

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