390 Foreign Literature and Science. 
The christians who live under his laws are under many ob- 
ligations to him; and enterprizing travellers of all nations 
and religions may now traverse Egypt with a security be- 
fore unknown in the Ottoman dominions. The army of the 
Vice Roy consists of not less than 45,000 men, compre- 
hending infantry, cavalry and artillery. His naval force 1s 
composed of 22 vessels, and the navigation of the Nile 1s 
protected by a great number of gun boats, each of which 
carries 40 men. The revenues of Mohamet Ali, as Vice 
Roy, amounts to 25 millions of Spanish piastres.. They 
arise from custom house duties, taxes, tolls, fisheries, pub- 
lic domains, contributions from conquered countries, and 
from caravans, &c. The Vice Roy pays in title of vassal 
2,400,000 livres to the Sultan; he sends the same sum to 
he Treasury of Mecca; 800,000 measures of rice, &c. to 
Constantinople, furnishes provisions to the caravans of Cai- 
ro; keeps a brilliant court, and often sends presents to the 
Sultan, to the favourite Sultana as well as to the ministers 
of his highness.and to persons in credit at the Seraglio. The 
actual population of Egypt does not exceed 3,000,000. __ It 
contains 2,496 towns and villages, of which 957 are in Up- 
amined the best sources of information, and has left noth- 
ing to be desired with respect to the authenticity or arrange- 
ment of his facts, 
26. Copenhagen.—M. H. Faber who has been three 
years in Iceland, and has examined every portion of that 
‘mountainous island, has formed an ample collection of its 
birds and their eggs, which is now in the Royal Museum. 
He has recently published in Latin a preliminary notice 0 
his oe under the title of a Prodroma of Icelandic 
itho 
27. Fine Arts.—Albert, duke of Saxe-'Teschen, has left 
to one of the princes of the imperial family his rich collec- 
tion, consisting of 300,000 engravings, from the earliest es- 
says in this art, to the most finished modern productions: 
