AND LOWER EGYPT. 3O9 



In speaking of discoveries, I have pointed out the 

 only species of conquest which philosophy adopts, 

 and which neither occasions the shedding of blood 

 nor of tears ; that alone which produces pure en- 

 joyment, and which an enlightened nation places 

 in the first rank. The sciences and the arts also 

 shall find in Egypt a repository, a nursery ; and the 

 riches which shall flow trom thence will have a 

 destination more ample, more generous, since their 

 distribution will extend to every nation of the 

 jrlobe. 



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Agriculture will assume a new form ; and being 

 better understood, it will add the treasures of abun- 

 dance to the accumulation of wealth already so 

 consider.ible. I have enumerated its principal pro- 

 ductions ; I have pointed out such as may be cul- 

 tivated with success, and the reunion of which pro- 

 mises to eclipse the most valuable commodities of 

 the wealthiest colony. The limits of fertility will 

 be enlarged at least as far as to the chains of moun- 

 tains which seem to mark its boundary on both 

 sides of the Nile. Nay, perhaps, industry, guided 

 by science, may discover the means of raising vege- 

 tation on the sandy and desert plains, which be- 

 hind these mountains extend themselves to the 

 east and to the west. 



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