xii author's preface. 



the Temple of Isis, at Dendera, will attract parti- 

 cular attention. The Author takes credit to him- 

 self for having followed the advice of a learned 

 antiquarian, the Count de Caylus, wao exhorts 

 those who collect monuments of antiquity , to commu- 

 nicate them to the public, because their collection, 

 though it consist hut of a few articles, may present 

 singularities not to he found in the most extensive ca- 

 binets. The collection of drawings for this work, 

 contains, in fact, some very curious singularities. 

 Finally, nothing has been neglected that could 

 prevent these travels from sinking too far below 

 their subject, and the interest generally excited by 

 new destinies of a country fruitful in wonders. 



