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viii PREFACE.
The sincere regret of feveral persons os distin£tion in soreign coun-
tries sollowed him to the tomb, and his country will always
place him in the number os those distinguiihed men, who have
done it honour.
Such have been the principal events of the lise os our author.
We lhall now make our readers acquainted with the work that
they have besore them, and in order to insorm them better os
what imports them to know, we (hall begin with giving them a
more particular account of the voyage into Egypt, which is the
fubje£r. os it.
It was by the orders os the late king Christi an vith, os glorious
memory, that this voyage was undertaken. This prince, founder
of our fociety, and whofe memory will be inviolably facred to it, had
joined to the love he bore his people, and to a conftant appli-
cation to make his kingdom siourish, a particular taste for arts and
learning, which he took a pleafure in encouraging by a royal
liberality. With the defign of enriching the learned world by
new difcoveries concerning Egypt, and of making advantage of
an exa£t. knowledge of this country, in order to give a greater
extent to the navigation of the Danifh nation, his Majefty was
defirous of having a circumftantial account of a country, fo
diftant and fo famous, but an account made by an intelligent
man, and whofe sidelity could not be queftioned. No one was
more capable than Mr. Nor den to fatisfy all the views of the
king.
He was then in the slower os his age, lively, discreet, os great
abilities, os a courage that no danger nor satigue difheartened,
together with this os a sine tafte, and which might be depended
upon, a fkilful obferver, a great defigner^ and a good mathema-
tician. There was ftill more than this; a ftrong desire in him os
examining, upon the fpot, the wonders of Egypt, had preceded
the orders os his matter.
Being
The sincere regret of feveral persons os distin£tion in soreign coun-
tries sollowed him to the tomb, and his country will always
place him in the number os those distinguiihed men, who have
done it honour.
Such have been the principal events of the lise os our author.
We lhall now make our readers acquainted with the work that
they have besore them, and in order to insorm them better os
what imports them to know, we (hall begin with giving them a
more particular account of the voyage into Egypt, which is the
fubje£r. os it.
It was by the orders os the late king Christi an vith, os glorious
memory, that this voyage was undertaken. This prince, founder
of our fociety, and whofe memory will be inviolably facred to it, had
joined to the love he bore his people, and to a conftant appli-
cation to make his kingdom siourish, a particular taste for arts and
learning, which he took a pleafure in encouraging by a royal
liberality. With the defign of enriching the learned world by
new difcoveries concerning Egypt, and of making advantage of
an exa£t. knowledge of this country, in order to give a greater
extent to the navigation of the Danifh nation, his Majefty was
defirous of having a circumftantial account of a country, fo
diftant and fo famous, but an account made by an intelligent
man, and whofe sidelity could not be queftioned. No one was
more capable than Mr. Nor den to fatisfy all the views of the
king.
He was then in the slower os his age, lively, discreet, os great
abilities, os a courage that no danger nor satigue difheartened,
together with this os a sine tafte, and which might be depended
upon, a fkilful obferver, a great defigner^ and a good mathema-
tician. There was ftill more than this; a ftrong desire in him os
examining, upon the fpot, the wonders of Egypt, had preceded
the orders os his matter.
Being