The taste for reading travels is at the present day become lo general, that a Work of this nature, if executed with a certain degree of intelligence, can scarcely fail to meet with a favorable reception: it conveys instruction While it affords amusement; it brings us acquainted. with men and customs that Were either imperfectly or not at all known to us ; and the contrast that necessarily exits between the manners of a distant country and those of our own, diffuses, in such narratives, an attractive singularity, Which, at once, combines the interest of fable and the merit of history.

EGYPT gave me the idea of an extreme fecundity, by means of a continued labour, and a wife and intelligent distribution of the waters at. of the NILE. luxor EGYPT, situated between ASIA and AFRICA, between the seas of EUROPE and those of INDIA, appeared to one of the greatest men of antiquity, and to him, among us, who shews himself still greater, worthy to be the central point of commerce of all nations.