'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.' [‎12] (73/360)

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Be could with fafety, would at all times choofe
to land there in preference to Suez, for the up
per part of the Red Sea is the mo ft tedious and
dangerous part of the whole voyage, and befides
Upper Egypt is full of monuments of antiquity.
The ruins of the famous city of Thebes are
within a very^few miles of Ghinnah, where
you go to from Cofire ;and the banks of the
Nile ail the way from thence to Cairo, are co
vered with valuable remains of ruined cities, of
which Dr. Pococke and Mr. Norden have pub-
liflied very learned and accurate accounts. It
is faid that not only the fort, and a number of
houfes were deftroyed, but alfo that near fix
hundred of the inhabitants were killed. This
account is probably very much exaggerated,
but it is to be feared as a heavy fire was kept up
on the town for upwards of two hours, many
of the people muft have fallen, and therefore
at prefent it is unneceflary to examine more
minutely into this route. I cannot however
conclude this digrefiion without expreffing a
hope that fome atonement will be made to
them for their lolles, which whether they were
attacked juftly or not, is abfolutely neceflary
before any European ought to venture to pafs
that way: by way of retaliation they will fa-
crifice