Boulak

Boulak, or BULAQ, the port of Cairo, on the Nile, opposite an island of the same name, about one mile NW. from that city, of which it forms a suburb. It is a close-built town of poor houses, extremely dirty, with very narrow and irregular unpaved streets. It contains the custom-house and warehouses of Cairo, a school of engineering, cotton, paper, and sugar factories, and the government printing-press. Here was formed by Mariette Pasha the national museum of Egyptian antiquities (removed in 1889-90 to Gizeh) which contained the results of systematic excavation, including many of the relics brought to light through the Egyptian Exploration Fund. Pop. 20,000.