Date: 1842
In the buildings by which they are formed is machinery for carrying the cotton through every process of spinning, weaving, dyeing, printing, &c. ; but at the time I visited them, only in the dyeing department were there symptoms of activity, — at least of activity at all proportioned to the extent of the establishment.  The steam-engine was out of order, the mules were idle, and a very few only of the looms were in motion.  There is about the whole establish ment an air of premature decay — observable also in the foundries and other manufactories esta blished in the vicinity of Cairo — which is ren dered more striking by the extensive scale on which the " materiel" of every description has