Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-08-21

d7n., but differently ,;ns9eared, and tie
orange and citron were In flower. Ssai'
was the alioea of the country on the I5;h
Of February.
WATERS of tie NILE.
The waters OF the Nile, Lighter, fofter,
ard mole agreeable TO the tate than any
] know, greatly promote ,he health o. 'he
inhs 5i.arts. All astieu.ty Acknowledges
their excellence, and the people dirk ,i:en'
with kind of avid;fy, without ever BE-
ing inbred by the qoan,i'y. Being light
ly appropriated with nisre, they are only
gentle aPelieat to ,ho!- who take ,Acn
t. eAccis
CLIMATE.
Anantienr hii'oyian iays, that tie Egyp-
ians are the mott hea!'l.y people on eaIta,
which advantage they owe to he f'lubri-
" Of the air, and Temperature OF the cil-
mate, which !e!don varies. But N!r. Sd
vary oilarves, chat there is all unhealthy
leaan in Esypt. From February al tbs
end of May, the iou,h winds blow Z, IL
,ervas, and load the a,mol phsre WIKI a
fab,Ie daft (which makes breathing o;t.s-
culs) ard drive before iilem pern:cioas ex-
i,alarj0ns. Sometimes the heat becomes
nfupportable, and tie Thermometer iud-
denly rites II degrees. TIE inhabitants
call this feafon nhavGn, h'iy, becauie
thefe winds are MOT felt fox fifty days, be-
tween Eater aud Whi,tlnt:de. l. nut:
not, however, befa"pof>d, that this wind,
which in few hours co-fupts !2e@s ara
animal iuhiianccs, blows fifty days. +
aypt would become tciart. Il !e.dom
blows DAYS together, and loneI;n,@s IS
only an impetuous whir!wind, which "a
pidly pages and Injuries only the traveller
overtaken in the deiar,s. Ihele wh:i-
winds CT :ands have buried caraya ais and
armies.
Mr.. Savary maintains, in oFpoit:on to
Mr.. Paw ard other modern au,iurs, that
the plague is no, a native dilorder OF T.
gypt, bet IS commonly bro"shy iron
Smyrna and ne lu:is:::h forts. Il always
ttops in he month CT June, or ,hc:e who
caich it then are always cured. E%csts
of heat and cold Teens 70 he equally Dc
fruttive of this dreadful contagio ion; win
ter kills it at ConAantinople, and tlmn7er
in Egypt it ieIdom reaches the polar cir-
Gle, and never pailes the tropic.
he European Hands aghaG with fear
at the ealamities it produces in Grand Ca
iro. This city is computed to contain
from eight to nine hundred ,houland inha-
bitants. They are 70 crowed that 200
citizens here occupy les fpace tk~n 50 at
Paris. The Areets are very narrow, and
always full Of people, who crowd and loi-
tie each other; and he paGenser is ionie-
times Obliged to wait ieyerai minutes be
fore he Can make his way. Ore per!on
with the plague will communicate II to
an hundred. The MahosnetanS dieln :hsir
houles, public fquares and Nreets, without
enc of them endeavoring to fave himie!i.
The Europeans who ihut rhemielve> Up,
and avoid communication, alone eirape
the general dildher.
Al do not die who are attacked, boz /
kave been aHured, that the p osue me-
times carries off &c, 600 peeps igom Grand
Cairo.
The Turks ufe no precautions 70 rre"ent
the plague; they fay il is fate; nor Is
quarantine performed at one Jingle port.
PE-kING.
TIE f5iVo7vius account IF fhetsmpe'atnre y
tie Cdiage CAPITAL, is t4tr~jrem F4"
Bruau's Narative If tie Em6cW flhe
Dutcb EgG India Comb3ny IL Ct'Hn !:
Picking is IN 50 degrees $ msno'es
north latitude, and Philadelphia IN SO DC
glees s6, 70 that they may be !aia 70 ts
under the fame parallel.
The winteris exceedingly cold and
fevere at Picking and the nature Of the
inier at Philade;H,in, is TIE fame.
TIE winter begins earlier at Picking
than a, Philadelphia, bur it is over equal.
ly la,e az both places.