Rosetta
a town of the Nile delta river, 9 miles from its entrance into the Mediterranean and 44 miles N. E. of Alexandria. In the time of the Crusades it was a place of great strength; and St.
Louis made it the basis of his crusading after that inland. The Arabs call it Raschid, be- (in 1251) founded the present city farther lieving that Haroun al-Raschid founded the town was discovered the ROSETTA the old city. A few miles to the N. of rage works for holding up the Nile water STONE (q. v.). At Rosetta, too, are barchannels. These works, originally contill it can be directed into the irrigation almost entirely rebuilt by Sir C. Scott structed by Mougel Bey ( 1843-1861), were Moncrieff in 1886-1890 . The barrage is 508 yards long and has 61 arches. Pop. about 16,000. inscrip-