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

Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57962

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## Summary

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 a white or clear water. Pliny relates this to be the case in the Italian seas, and also in the Thracian Bosphorus, where he observes they are more frequent.

## Chapters

- [part I have ever seen them was about Cosseir, and to the northward](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/select-specimens-of-natural-history-collected-in-travels-to-dis-0f1b1c3b/chapters/1/index.md)
- [i. 160](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/select-specimens-of-natural-history-collected-in-travels-to-dis-0f1b1c3b/chapters/7/index.md)
- [i. 405 to 410](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/select-specimens-of-natural-history-collected-in-travels-to-dis-0f1b1c3b/chapters/3/index.md)
- [iii. 617](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/select-specimens-of-natural-history-collected-in-travels-to-dis-0f1b1c3b/chapters/5/index.md)
- [ii. 649](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/select-specimens-of-natural-history-collected-in-travels-to-dis-0f1b1c3b/chapters/4/index.md)
- [iv. 385](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/select-specimens-of-natural-history-collected-in-travels-to-dis-0f1b1c3b/chapters/2/index.md)
- [ii. 396](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/select-specimens-of-natural-history-collected-in-travels-to-dis-0f1b1c3b/chapters/6/index.md)