AND LOWER EGYPT. $53 



folio of a traveller. I can answer for the fidelity 

 of all my drawings ; my draughtsman was accus- 

 tomed to the most scrupulous exactness, and they 

 were all taken under my own eye. 



A-propos of this Frenchman : the Jew told us 

 that when he came to Aboukir, he omitted to take 

 with him, in the researches which he made in the 

 environs, a man of the country appointed by the 

 governor, and that this latter, piqued at it, exacted 

 under form of avanie a chequin from the traveller. 

 Of consequence, he took care that we should be 

 accompanied by the governor's son himself, and 

 engaged that I should give him as a recompense, 

 a pataca or six francs (five shillings}, and this 

 was to avoid a demand of seven livres six sous 

 (6s. iod.), the value of a chequin in Egypt. This 

 combination appeared extremely diverting to us. 



By the side of this statue is a very large sphynx 

 partly broken, the supporter of which has a fillet of 

 hieroglyphics almost entirely effaced. (See Plate 

 VII. fig. i .) These are the remains of a celebrated 

 city, founded by the Greeks, and embellished with 

 all the most superb and most graceful inventions 

 of art. A magnificent temple, of which these 

 wonderful pillars of granite, at present broken 

 down, formed to all appearance a part, was con- 

 secrated to Scrapis. Strangers arrived there in 



vol. i. a a crowds, 



