bond or obligation.

MERIS, a lake in Egypt, occasionally mentioned in that article (Encycl.), and generally supposed the production of human art. Of this, however, Mr Brown says it bears no mark. "The shape, as far as was distinguishable, seems not inaccurately laid down in D'Anville's map, unless it be, that the end nearest the Nile should run more in a north-west and south-east direction. The length may probably be between 30 and 40 miles; the breadth, at the widest part he could gain, was 5000 toises, as taken with a sextant; that is, near