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author's preface. xi
the result of an enterprise engaged in, solely with
a view to make it subservient to the public good.
The work has been moulded into the form of
a relation, as best adapted to a book of travels.
There is a pleasure in laying hold of a traveller's
hand, in making one in his* parties, in partaking
of his fatigues and dangers", as well as in enjoying
with him the success with which his researches
are crowned. But this relation has not the dry-
ness of a journal or of an itinerary. Observations,
elucidations, general reflections, relieve it from
such a tiresome monotony.
It was the Author's intention to have given a
new map of Egypt, more accurate than any one
hitherto exhibited ; but he had not time sufficient
for executing his idea ; he has therefore adopted
D'Anville's chart, as the least defective which he
has had an opportunity of inspecting, though as-
suredly it leaves ample room for improvement.
Drawings exact, and taken on the spot, represent
objects of various kinds, most of them not gene-
rally known; the singular figures discovered in
the
the result of an enterprise engaged in, solely with
a view to make it subservient to the public good.
The work has been moulded into the form of
a relation, as best adapted to a book of travels.
There is a pleasure in laying hold of a traveller's
hand, in making one in his* parties, in partaking
of his fatigues and dangers", as well as in enjoying
with him the success with which his researches
are crowned. But this relation has not the dry-
ness of a journal or of an itinerary. Observations,
elucidations, general reflections, relieve it from
such a tiresome monotony.
It was the Author's intention to have given a
new map of Egypt, more accurate than any one
hitherto exhibited ; but he had not time sufficient
for executing his idea ; he has therefore adopted
D'Anville's chart, as the least defective which he
has had an opportunity of inspecting, though as-
suredly it leaves ample room for improvement.
Drawings exact, and taken on the spot, represent
objects of various kinds, most of them not gene-
rally known; the singular figures discovered in
the