in Egypt, and other eastern countries, a poor sort of buildings for the reception of strangers and travellers. People are accommodated in these with a room at a small price, but with no other necessaries; so that, excepting the room, there are no greater accommodations in these houses than in the deserts, only that there is a market near.

CANES Venatici, in Astronomy, the Greyhounds, two new constellations, first established by Hevelius, between the tail of the Great Bear and Bootes's arms, above the Coma Berenices. The first is called asterion, being that next the Bear's tail; the other chara. They comprehend comprehend 23 stars, of which Tycho only observed two. The longitudes and latitudes of each are given by Hevelius. In the British Catalogue they are 25.