| GUNS | GUNS | ||
| 1. Masr | 138 | 13. Mufti Gehat | 22 |
| 2. Acre | 138 | 14. Tantah | 24 |
| 3. Mahellet-el-Kebir | 100 | 15. Pelenga Gehat | 22 |
| 4. Mansourah | 100 | 16. Psyche | 22 |
| 5. Alexandria | 96 | 17. Fouah | 20 |
| 6. Aboukir | 90 | 18. Genah Baharia | 20 |
| 7. Jaffaria | 62 | 19. Cervelli | 20 |
| 8. Bahirah | 60 | 20. Satalia | 20 |
| 9. Rashid | 58 | 21. Washington | 18 |
| 10. Kafr-el-Sheïkh | 58 | 22. Semuda Gehat | 18 |
| 11. Sheergehat | 54 | 23. Timsah | 13 |
| 12. Damietta | 50 |
State of the Thermometer at Constantinople, from May 6. to June 3. inclusive.
| LOWEST AT NIGHT. | A. M. | ||
| May 6. | 46° | 8 | 56° |
| 7. | 42° | — | — |
| 8. | 45° | — | 60° |
| 9. | 47° | — | 56° |
| 10. | 47° | — | — |
| 11. | — | — | 57° |
| 12. | 44° | — | 55° |
| 13. | — | — | — |
| 14. | 49° | — | 56° |
| 15. | 51° | — | 55° |
| 16. | 47° | 7 | 52° |
| 17. | — | — | 55° |
| 18. | 52° | 8 | 58° |
| 22. | 59° | — | 69° |
| 23. | 52° | — | 55° |
| 24. | — | — | 57° |
| 25. | 42° | — | 51° |
| 26. | 49° | — | 60° |
| 27. | 58° | — | 62° |
| 28. | 59° | — | 69° |
| 29. | 56° | — | 60° |
| 30. | 55° | — | 65° |
| 31. | 55° | — | 64° |
| June 1. | 56° | — | 58° |
| 2. | 52° | — | 80° |
| 3. | 55° | — | 59° |
| Here it ceased to be an object of remark. | |||
Note to Page 24.
This practice of insulting the religion of such as profess a faith different from their own has ever been a characteristic of the Oriental nations, and is illustrative of a passage in the New Testament, which I have not seen explained by any of the commentators: I mean the expression of our Saviour, where he denounces the votaries of avarice, by declaring that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
For a long time previous to Christ's appearance, it had been usual for the "Sons of Ishmael," or pagan Arabs of Asia Minor, to make hostile incursions into the provincial towns of Judea, and riding their dromedaries into the synagogues, to desecrate the altar in the manner here ascribed to the Turks. In order to put a stop to these enormities, the Jews hit upon the expedient of constructing the doors of their churches so low, that an ordinary-sized man could only enter by stooping; and thus they completely foiled their persecutors, for the disinclination of the Arabs to dismount, even on the most pressing occasions, is well known to such as have travelled among these sons of the Desert. In the hyperbolical phraseology of the East, these diminished apertures were compared to the eye of a needle; and the impossibility of a camel making his way through them, became at length a proverbial expression for any impracticable undertaking.