TRANSLATOR'S preface. 



One of the first books of History put into our 

 hands, contains many curious and interesting par- 

 ticulars respecting ancient Egypt. The recollec- 

 tion of these carries us with a warmer impulse to 

 contemplate *he present state of things in that 

 country. The French nation, each individual 

 an Alexander, aims at nothing less than the con- 

 quest of the globe. After having over-run a great 

 part of Europe, they turned their eyes eastward to 

 Asia, and, without the vent, it was ijiJi, viri, and 

 the islands of the Egean Sea furnished another 

 department to the Republic. It was but a step 

 thence to Africa, to greet the Mameluc of Egypt 

 with the fraternal embrace, and add twenty more 

 to the departments of the Great Nation. The 



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