Haffr, to New Donkolah, which I reached at noon on the 22nd of December. The journey is usually performed in ten days, but I stopped on the road to examine a11 the antiquarian remains. Utrdeh, A'gi,* Marvikah,t or New Donkolah (for it is known by all these names), has sprung into a place of importance within the last twelve years. The population is estimated at 6000, including 800 troops, their wives and families, an estimate which appeare(l to me much too high. The number of Copts is about 100. The bazar is daily increasing, and is supplied from Cairo; the principal articles brought from thence being shoes, printed cottons, calicoes, sugar, rice, cloth, hardware, &c. The duties upon goods entering New Donkolah are heavy, so that articles of consumption are dear, in many instances treble or quadruple what they are in Cairo. Donkolah can boast of a coSee-house. The government is at present building baths, and there is alreaely a large manufactory for indigo. The thermometer on Christmasday stood in the shade at 2 P.M. at 86?, and at 8 P.M. at 80?. The position of New Donkolah, as state(l by M. Linant, is 1S? 7' 30" N. lat. and 29? 54' 35" long. E. of Greenurich. The town is placed on the edge of the river, the banks of shich, when the water is lowest, are abollt 25 feet high, and I shoulel think that the Nile rises here about 18 or 20 feet.

On the 31st of December, having procured a boat, I left New Donkolah, and on the afternoon of the .3rd January, 1837, I reached Old Donkolah. The town is in ruins, and does not contain a population of more than 3Q0. The most striking object here is a mosque on ratller an elevated site, from the to) of which there is an extensive prospect of the arid Desert and meandering Nile. The sand is of a very bright yellow colour, and has accumulated in such quantities as in 1nany places to conceal the houses; its surface being level with their roofs, an(l the entrance tl) the apartments being through the ceiling of the rooms. There is no land capable of cultivation near the ruined town; in short, almost all the east bank of the river, between Ol(l and New Donkolah, is covered with drifted sand, an(l rare is it to see even a few feet of cultivable soil. Our direction from Okl Donkolah was S.E., then due E. until near Ambukol, whence we traveiled a few miles a point to the N. of E.

The only object of interest in the neighbourhoo(l of Ambukol is a portion of desert near the river, about 8 miles W. of the village. This waste is called Haaybarlak. The superficial stratum here is a coarse sandstone, curious and interesting from its * The collrt, a Turkish term.-F.S. + Cal)ital of l)ne of the ancient ecclesiastical divisions of Nubia (Quatremere, B{emoires sur l'Egypte et la Nubie). F. S.

+ Dr. Ruppell gives its lat. 19? 10t 19/t, long. 30o 22' 151/ E.

]64 Mr. H OEROYD'S Jaurney {o Kordofen. tl836,