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Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.

Bruce, James, 1730-1794· 7 chapters· 6,818 words

of it, where I must observe there was an ancient port, called Myos Hormos, which commentators have called the Port of the Mouse, when they should have translated it, the Harbour of the Mussel. This fish contains often pearls of great beauty for lustre and shape, but seldom of...

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1. part I have ever seen them was about Cosseir, and to the northward

of it, where I must observe there was an ancient port, called Myos Hormos, which commentators have called the Port of the Mouse, when they should have translated it, the Harbour...

2. iv. 385

3. i. 405 to 410

4. ii. 649

5. iii. 617

6. ii. 396

7. i. 160

[16] Sir Joseph Banks shewed me a slip of paper which he got from an Italian gentleman, made, if I remember, of a cyperus found in the river or lake of Thrasymene. I do not reco...