The steam-engine was out of order, the mules were idle, and a very few only of the looms were in motion.
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