Encyclopædia Britannica, First Edition/Cairo

CAIRO, or Grand Cairo, the capital of Egypt, situated in a plain at the foot of a mountain, about two miles east of the Nile, and 100 miles south of the mouth of that river: E. long. 32°, N. lat. 30°.

The town is ten miles in circumference, and full of inhabitants. The castle stands on the summit of a hill, at the south end of the town, and is three miles round. The British and other European states have their consuls and factors here, for the protection of trade.