1800.] Egvptian Commerce. Ig

falt, or real nitre. The ſurrounding hills are of a mooriſh qua- lity, covered with lavender, thyme, and other pot herbs, which in that country, féem to- ſupply the placé of whinns, heath,&c. which grow upon the Engliſh commons.

Thefe ſalines do net appear to me to have any reſemblance to the ſalines of America, or to the medicinal ſprings of that con- tinent, of which I will endeavour to give ſome account, Lo far 4s my recollection may ſérve me.

[To be continued.)

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For the Commercial and, Agricultural Magazine.

At the commencement of our Publication, we inſerted from‘Mr. Browne's Travels, ſome account of the Commerce of Egypt, then made intereſting, by the undecided fate of the adventurous Bonaparte. The firſt article of 2 periodical French publication in imitation of ours, alſo exhibits a ſtate- ment of Egyptian Commerce, with an evident intention of juſtifying to poſ- terity the views of the Fir& Conſul in that enteïprize. We inſert it as a ſpecimen of the performance of our French imitators. E.

EGYPTIAN COMMERCE.

Extraë from No. 1, of“ Annales des Arts et Manufaëures, au MMemairs technologiques ſur les Decouverts Modernes concernant les Arts, les Manufaëtures, P Agriculture, et le Commerce.”

Man* of rare talents and uncommon reſource firſt de-

monîtrated to Erante, in a memoir read beforethe Nacional Inftitue, in the 5th year(1797) the advantages of colonizing Egypt; hence has ariſen our eftabliſhment there.

At the very name of that country what intereſting traces are furniſhed by* memory! Never has the hiſtory of mankind ſhewn us the arts, the ſciences, or commerce, elſewhere carried to ſo great a pitch of ſplendour. Jealouſy and ignorance haye been able to decry the Egyptian expedition; but poſterity will judge better; and the brilliant conception“ which formed and executed that judicious enterprize, will be revenged by the admiration of our grand-children, on che injuſtice of our ungrateful contempo-

raries. Here I might pay my tribute of applauſe to our zcw.

Alexander; but he is in power’; and to praiſe merit in ſuch a fitu- ation would prove an inability to appreciate it with diſcrimina- tion.

While France was diſputing on the advantages of a colony in Egypt, the Engliſh determined the queſtion. The effforts which they have made for the deſtruéion of the unfortunate Tippoo- Sultan, and for the! confirmation of their pôwer in India; the enormous expences' of their maritime expeditions in the Medi-

terranean, the monítrous alliance with the Porte, which they,

ci Talleyrand Perigord.

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