Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798

by William George Browne

AUGUST.
Day of the Month.	Height of Therm. 7 A.M.	Height of Therm. 3 P.M.	Course of the Wind.
1	78	95
2	78	94
3	75	92
4	74½	93
5	73	92
6	77	95
7	78	97
8	79	96
9	77	98		S.
10	81	100		S.S.E.
11	80
12	79
13	76	94
14	78	94
15	79	95
16	78	95
17	76	95
18	79	96
19	80	99		S.
20	77	94
21	76	94
22	75	94
23	77	95
24	77	93		N.W.
25	75	93		N.W.
26	76	94		N.N.W.
27	75	92		N.
28	78	94
29	80	96		S.W.
30	78	95		S.
31	77	95

SEPTEMBER.
Day of the Month.	Height of Therm. 7 A.M.	Height of Therm. 3 P.M.	Course of the Wind.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8	77	93	⎫ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎬ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎭	Always S.E. or S.
9	80	95
10	81	95
11	79	93
12	78	93
13	80	94
14	77	92
15	75	92
16	74	90
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29	74	90		N.E.
30	75	90		N.E.

OCTOBER.
Day of the Month.	Height of Therm. 7 A.M.	Height of Therm. 3 P.M.	Course of the Wind.
1	76	90
2	75	91
3	80	93		N.
4	78	93
5	77	92
6	77	90
7	77	91
8	76	91
9	78	92
10	80	92
11	75	90		N.W.
12	74	87		N.N.W.
13	74	86
14	72	86		N.W.N.
15	72½	86
16	73	84
17	75	86
18	77	87
19	76	87		N.
20	80	89
21	76	86
22	75	85
23	75	84
24	74	84
25	76	84½
26	75½	86
27	74	84
28
29	72	81
30	73	81
31	72	81

NOVEMBER.
Day of the Month.	Height of Therm. 7 A.M.	Height of Therm. 3 P.M.	Course of the Wind.
1	70	83
2	72	87		S.
3	71	86
4	72	86
5	73	87
6	69	88
7	69	82		N.E.
8	70	82		N.N.E.
9	69	81
10	68	80
11	68	82
12	69	80
13	70	80
14	68	79
15	69	83
16	72	86
17	72½	84
18	72	83½
19	70	81
20	71	82	⎫ ⎪ ⎪ ⎬ ⎪ ⎪ ⎭	S.
21	73	82
22	72	83
23	72	84
24	73½	86
25	73	85
26	72	85
27	74	82
28	71	80
29	70	80
30	70	79

DECEMBER.
Day of the Month.	Height of Therm. 7 A.M.	Height of Therm. 3 P.M.	Course of the Wind.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12	59	71	⎫ ⎪ ⎪ ⎬ ⎪ ⎪ ⎭	N.
13	60	73
14	62	79
15	57	76
16	57	77
17	58	79
18	57	78
19	60	79
20	60	80	⎫ ⎪ ⎪ ⎬ ⎪ ⎪ ⎭	S.W.
21	62	80
22	62½	81
23	61	81
24	57	80
25	58	80
26	56	74
27	60	76
28	56	76
29	57	76
30	58	77
31	57	76

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No. IV.

Some Observations on the account of Egypt given in the works of Savary and Volney.

Vol. i. p. 27. Savary says, Alexandria is only a village, containing scarcely six thousand inhabitants. The fall of Alexandria from its antient splendour has already been remarked; and how vague all computations of number must necessarily be, by persons who reside there only for a few weeks or months. But Alexandria alone furnished to the Imperial army and navy, in the war with the Russians, four thousand men able to bear arms. This, with other circumstances, might serve to prove that the population must greatly exceed the number mentioned.

He computes the people of Damiatt at eighty thousand, which appears no less extravagant on the other side, and is certainly at least double the real number.