[35]The name of Mokra still remains in the appellation of Wady Mokrat, on the Nile, three days journeys below Berber.
[36]See [note 19.]
[37]i. e. the Gates.
[38]This river is, no doubt, the Mogren, the bed of which I found dry, with the exception of a few pools, in April, 1814.
[39]This name is usually applied to the Sherif Edrys, as having been a native of Nubia; Macrizi here applies it to Selym of Assouan, as the historian of Nubia.
[40]This description answers to that of a fish found in some of the rivers of Asia Minor. Ed.
[41]See [note 20.]
[42]See [note 21.]
[43]So I translate the Arabic word Berak, (plur. of Birket). Thus the Dead Sea is called “Birket Lout,” the sea or lake of Lot.
[44]By this river the Nil el Azrek (Blue Nile) is no doubt meant.