By water the sentiment might easily have come down the _Ganges_ into
the _Sinus Gangeticus_, or _Bay of Bengal_, and so into the _Indian
Sea;_ and following the course of trade (the way from _India_ by the
_Cape of Good Hope_ being then unknown), might be carried with other
drugs and spices up the _Red Sea_ to _Joddah_, the port of _Mekka_, or
else to _Tor_ or _Sues_, towns at the bottom of the gulf; and from
thence by karrawans to _Coptos_, but three days journey distant, so
down the _Nile_ directly to _Alexandria_, where the SENTIMENT would be
landed at the very foot of the great stair-case of the _Alexandrian_
library,——and from that store-house it would be fetched.——Bless me!
what a trade was driven by the learned in those days!
[23] This book my father would never consent to publish; ’tis in
manuscript, with some other tracts of his, in the family, all, or most
of which will be printed in due time.