At this spot, towards which many paths lead, all strewed with minute shells instead of gravel, Moses is said to have been found in his cradle of bulrushes( ?).
Immediately adjoining the garden we find a summer residence belonging to Mehemet Ali.
The well shewn as that into which Joseph was thrust by his brethren lies about two miles distant from the town, in a village on the road to Suez.

Half a mile off a very large and venerable sycamore-tree was pointed out to me as the one in the shade of which the holy family rested on their way to Egypt; and a walk of another quarter of a mile brings us to the garden of Boghos Bey, in the midst of which stands one of the finest and largest obelisks of Upper Egypt: it is still in good condition, and completely covered with hieroglyphics.

The garden, however, offers nothing remarkable.

The ancient city of Heliopolis is said to have been built not far off; but at the present day not a vestige of it remains.
The road to this garden already lies partly in the desert.

At first the way winds through avenues of trees and past gardens; but soon the vast desert extends to the right, while beautiful orange and citron groves still skirt the left side of the path.