Observations on the manners and customs of the Egyptians, the overflowing of the Nile and its effects / with remarks on the plague, and other subjects. By John Antes.

  • Antes, John.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Observations on the manners and customs of the Egyptians, the overflowing of the Nile and its effects / with remarks on the plague, and other subjects. By John Antes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they have conquered appear Hill greater ; but if we confider that it is not effeminacy alone, but internal diflentions, which make people fall a prey to their enemies, we fhall not wonder at it, for this was too much the cafe in thofe times. But I am led from my fubjeft. What I have obferved above ferves only to prove, that if a traveller goes by way of curiofity to Egypt, who may otherwife be very well qualified, but does not remain long enough in the country to be- come mailer, of the language, and able to fee with his own eyes, he mull necelfarily content himfelf with what he may partly guefs at, or may have gathered imperfectly from the natives, or from this or the other European merchant, who is, perhaps, not accullomed to very accurate obfervation. From this he mull compile his narrative, and often full credit is given to every particular of it, in proportion to the rank the author holds in the learned world at home, or on ac- count of the elegant {tile and embellifhments with which it may be adorned. His afiertions are frequently cited, and copied by others, for the whole next century ; and this is, probably, the caufe of fo many errors and mifreprefentations as are frequently met with in geographical deferiptions. Mr. Volney, in his Travels into Egypt, p. 70, fays: “ That the drynefs of the air, particularly in the Defarts of Egypt, is fuch, “ that