with an account, ancient and modern, of the Oasis of Amun and the other oases now under the dominion of the pasha of Egypt; with a map and twenty plates illustrating the temples, scenery, etc.
221 CHAP. XIII. OASIS PARVA. BELZONI. EXTENT OF THE OASIS. VILLAGES. POPULATION. LOCUSTS. CHARACTER OF THE INHABITANTS. QUARREL. PRODUCE. FEVERS. PUNISHMENTS. TRIBUTE. ANTIQUITIES. TRIUMPHAL ARCH. SINGULAR AQUEDUCTS. TEM PERATURE OF THE SOURCES. SEPULCHRES. MUM MIES. COPTIC RUINS AT EL HAYZ. CHRISTIAN RUINS. ROMAN RUINS. CULTIVATED LAND. TEMPERATURE OF THE SOURCE. ARAB SAINTS. OASIS OF FARAFREH. VILLAGE AND CASTLE. GREAT VARIETY OF THE PRODUCTIONS IN THIS OASIS. COMMERCE. POPULATION. MR. WILKINSON’S AC COUNT OF OTHER OASES OASIS PARVA. Belzoni seems to have been the first European traveller who visited the Wah el Bahnasa, or as it is sometimes called Wah el Mendeesheh, the Oasis parva of the Romans. He left the Faioom the 19th May, 1819, but did not meet with a very cordial reception. The inhabitants doubted the sincerity of his antiquarian predilections, and were induced to ascribe a more sordid motive as the cause of his having traversed the desert. But although they received him with great sus-