PREFACE. ^xi 



The merit of the discovery* of the room in the great pyramid at 

 Giza, over the chamber which contains the Sarcophagus, is due 

 solely to Mr. Davison : no traveller before or since his time has 

 examined it ; nor has any one been induced by curiosity to descend 

 so far into another part of the same building. Very little was 

 known of the catacombs of Alexandria before he examined them : 

 they seem to have been scarcely noticed by preceding travellers. 

 He was the first who surveyed the whole of these extensive 

 cemeteries ; and the plan of the Necropolis among his papers, is 

 nearly as full and complete as that which was afterwards made by 

 the French. 



Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Modern Inhabitants of 

 Egypt ; from the Journals of Dr. Hume. 



Journal of a Voyage up the Nile, betzveen Philce and Ibrim, in 

 Nubia, in May 1814, by Captain Light. 



On the Topography of Athens ; communicated by Mr. Haiikins. 



On the Vale of Tempe ; by the same. 



On the Syrinx of Strabo, and the Passage of the Euripus ; by the 

 same. 



• Mr. D.'s discovery is mentioned by Niebuhr and Bruce : the former says, " Je ne fus 

 pas assez heureux pour y decouvrir une chanibre, jusqu' alors inconnue, et qui fut decou- 

 verte apres notre depart par Mr. Davison." Vol. i. p. 161. The latter says, " Mr. D. 

 discovered the chamber above the landing place." Vol. i. p. 41. Maillet had been forty 

 times in the pyramid, and had no knowledge of the chamber. 



