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Proceedings Of A Great Council Of Jews,
enthroned his son , and this brou .-ht a peaceable settlement . And with him there were c it off clivers Baku ' s heads ; all whose heads ( excepting the Great Turk ' .-. ) lay thre . da \ siu chargers before the palace-gate , for the public view of the people ; which , theylay , is the custom for the n . ibiemen that are beheaded . ' The next thing is , the flowing of the river Nilus in Egypt ; the manner whereof is this : it beginneih to flow about the fifteenth of
June every-year : the people know the time thereof , and expect it accordingly ; and this is after their , harvest , which is usually ended about fhe beginning of May . As for rain , there seldom falleth any in Eg-pt . During- the time the river is up , all the country " appeareth like islands . Their towns are seated upon hills , and their lower grounds are all covered with waters ; the inhabitants use small
boats to pass from place to place about their affairs : and because they know the yearly Mowing of Nilus , they provide for the'safety of their cattle till the waters are wasted away again . There are also certain pillars of stone sec up , with divers marks upon them , by which they know the degrees of the rising , aud the usual height that the waters do ascend unto , and if the waters do ascend above the hi ghest mark , they do expect some strange consequence thereof . But the greatest
wonder is , ihe present cessation of the plague upon the flowing of this river . There died some thousands of the plague the day before the flowing of'Nilus in Grand-Cairo , as they certified me ; and a day or two after , not one person more died of the infection . This I observed , that the land is full of unhealthy fogs , mists , ancl vapours , which cause the disease ; and it seems the waters of Nilus do purify it again . ' lu the kingdom of Grand-Cairoalias Pharaoh ' s town , is the city ,
, and it is greater than any elsewhere I did behold ; but Memphis is the neater ^ city : and being there , I went to see the Land of Goshen , where the Israelites did inhabit . This is a very pleasant and fruitful land for pasture , such as 1 have no where seen the like . At this time , also , 1 had an opportunity to see the Red Sea , and the place where ( as they informed me ) the Israelites did enter their journey through
the same . There also they shewed me the great mountains that inclosed them , when Pharaoh pursued them with his great army ; ancl the hills where the two armies lay in sight one of another . And there L found the true reason whyit iscailed the Red Sea ; not because the water is red naturady , but because the sand is red : and this was clear to me by p lain demonstration ; for I put some of the water into a clean vessel , and there I did see it had the same colour of other water ; but the sand is reddish , and giveth the same colour to the
water . ' Thirdly , you may expect some news from Rome , where also I was , and did behold their great solemnity ; it being then the Anno-Sancto , as they there call it , that is , the year of Jubilee . * There 1 beheld the Pope in his glory , and how in great state he was carried about the city : the streets were thronged with the people ; and as he passed by , they made them even ring with acclamations and rejoicings : he was carried by some eminent men , having
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Proceedings Of A Great Council Of Jews,
enthroned his son , and this brou .-ht a peaceable settlement . And with him there were c it off clivers Baku ' s heads ; all whose heads ( excepting the Great Turk ' .-. ) lay thre . da \ siu chargers before the palace-gate , for the public view of the people ; which , theylay , is the custom for the n . ibiemen that are beheaded . ' The next thing is , the flowing of the river Nilus in Egypt ; the manner whereof is this : it beginneih to flow about the fifteenth of
June every-year : the people know the time thereof , and expect it accordingly ; and this is after their , harvest , which is usually ended about fhe beginning of May . As for rain , there seldom falleth any in Eg-pt . During- the time the river is up , all the country " appeareth like islands . Their towns are seated upon hills , and their lower grounds are all covered with waters ; the inhabitants use small
boats to pass from place to place about their affairs : and because they know the yearly Mowing of Nilus , they provide for the'safety of their cattle till the waters are wasted away again . There are also certain pillars of stone sec up , with divers marks upon them , by which they know the degrees of the rising , aud the usual height that the waters do ascend unto , and if the waters do ascend above the hi ghest mark , they do expect some strange consequence thereof . But the greatest
wonder is , ihe present cessation of the plague upon the flowing of this river . There died some thousands of the plague the day before the flowing of'Nilus in Grand-Cairo , as they certified me ; and a day or two after , not one person more died of the infection . This I observed , that the land is full of unhealthy fogs , mists , ancl vapours , which cause the disease ; and it seems the waters of Nilus do purify it again . ' lu the kingdom of Grand-Cairoalias Pharaoh ' s town , is the city ,
, and it is greater than any elsewhere I did behold ; but Memphis is the neater ^ city : and being there , I went to see the Land of Goshen , where the Israelites did inhabit . This is a very pleasant and fruitful land for pasture , such as 1 have no where seen the like . At this time , also , 1 had an opportunity to see the Red Sea , and the place where ( as they informed me ) the Israelites did enter their journey through
the same . There also they shewed me the great mountains that inclosed them , when Pharaoh pursued them with his great army ; ancl the hills where the two armies lay in sight one of another . And there L found the true reason whyit iscailed the Red Sea ; not because the water is red naturady , but because the sand is red : and this was clear to me by p lain demonstration ; for I put some of the water into a clean vessel , and there I did see it had the same colour of other water ; but the sand is reddish , and giveth the same colour to the
water . ' Thirdly , you may expect some news from Rome , where also I was , and did behold their great solemnity ; it being then the Anno-Sancto , as they there call it , that is , the year of Jubilee . * There 1 beheld the Pope in his glory , and how in great state he was carried about the city : the streets were thronged with the people ; and as he passed by , they made them even ring with acclamations and rejoicings : he was carried by some eminent men , having