Identifier: journaloflatecam00wals (find matches)
Title: Journal of the late campaign in Egypt: including descriptions of that country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; with an appendix; containing official papers and documents
Year: 1803 (1800s)
Authors: Walsh, Thomas, fl. 1801
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Publisher: London T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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incipal fortification was the Pharos^a poor substitute for the noble structure, whichformerly bore that name. The approach to itwas over a narrow causeway, shut in on bothsides from the sea by a thin wall. It consisted ofa low square tower, enclosed by a double ram-part and ditch ; the whole of Turkish construc-tion, but kept in very good repair by the French.Its best defence was its very formidable andbeautiful artillery, brought over from France, allbrass, and cast in the reigns of Lewis the XlVthand XVth. It was also well supplied with veryline mortars. Several furnaces for heating shotwere also disposed along the faces looking towardthe sea. Some of the stone shot formerly used bythe Turks, still remained in the fort. On the top of the tower stands the presentlighthouse. All the prisoners taken from ussince our landing in the country, were confinedin this fort, and could not boast of having beenwell treated. How cruel must their situationhave been, when, on the 21st of March, they
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< © 50 Ed EXPEDITION TO EGYPT. 229. con Id see every movement, and hear every sliot,without hemg- able to learn the result! The site of the ancient Pharos, one of theseven wonders of the world, was certainly to theeastward of the present, on or near a dangerousrock in the new harbour, called the Diamond.I have been assured, that at low water, and on avery calm day, the remains of its granite founda-tions are still to be seen*. The redoute de Cleopatra, and that ofPompey, were two very good works; but all theother fortifications were totally insignificant, be-ing either field works, or old towers crumblingto pieces under the weight of their guns, andcalculated only to stop Arabs, or undisciplinedtroops. Against a regular and spirited attack,Alexandria could not have held out more than tenor twelve days. * On a rock encompassed by the sea, at the east end of the island, was tliefamous Pharos, or hghthouse, which seems to be the spot on which one of thetwo castles is built, at the en

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