Sir A. Edmonstone’s first intention was to visit the Thebaic Oasis; but understanding from Mr. Belzoni that Mr. Caillaud had already been there, but that there was another Oasis to the westward, which had never been visited by any European, he resolved to proceed thither.  This Oasis was also visited by Drovetti much about I he same time:  he calls it the Oasis of Dakel.  It seems to have escaped the notice of all the ancient authors examined by Sir Archibald, except Olympiodorus.  Speaking of the Thebaic Oasis, he mentions an interior and extensive one, lying opposite to the other, one hundred miles apart, which corresponds with the actual distance between them.

The American traveller accompanied the expedition of the pacha of Egypt as far as Sennaar.  He commences the account of his voyage up the Nile at the second cataract; and as far as the pyramids of Meroe, where the voyage of Messrs. Waddington and Hanbury terminated, his accounts correspond with what they give.  He did not, however, follow the great bend of the river above Dongola:  this he describes as 250 miles long, and full of rocks and rapid.  He again reached the Nile, having crossed the peninsula in a direct line, at Shendi.  Near this place he discovered the remains of a city, temples, and fifty-four pyramids, which are supposed, by a writer in the Quarterly Review, to be the ruins of the celebrated Meroc, as their position agrees with that assigned them by a draughtsman employed by Mr. Bankes.  The army halted on the western bank of the Nile, opposite Halfaia:  about five hours’ march above this place the Bahr el Abiad, or White River, flows into the Bahr el Azreck, or Nile of Bruce.  In thirteen days from the junction of these two rivers, the army, marching along the left, or western branch of the Azreck, reached Sennaar.

In the year 1817, Delia Cella, an Italian physician, accompanied the army of the bashaw of Tripoli as far as Bomba, on the route towards Egypt, and near the frontiers of that country.  He had thus an opportunity “of visiting one of the oldest and most celebrated of the Greek colonies, established upwards of seven hundred years before the birth of Christ; and in being the first European to follow the footsteps of Cato round the shores of the Syrtis, and to explore a region untrodden by Christian foot since the expulsion of the Romans, the Huns, and the Vandals, by the enterprising disciples of Mahomet.”  In this journey he necessarily passed the present boundary between Tripoli and Bengaze, the same which was anciently the boundary between Carthage and Cyrene; and our author confirms the account of Sallust, that neither river nor mountain marks the confines.  He also confirms the description given by Herodotus of the dreadful storms of sand that frequently arise and overwhelm the caravans in this part of the Syrtis.  At the head of the Syrtis the ground is depressed, and this depression, our author supposes, continues to the Great Desert.  Soon after he left this barren country, he entered Cyrenaica, the site of Cyrene:  that most ancient and celebrated colony of the Greeks was easily ascertained by its magnificent ruins.  From Cyrene the army marched to Derna, and from this to the gulf of Bomba, an extensive arm of the sea, where the expedition terminated.