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With Egyptian statuary I am little acquainted. The only four years of my life which were spent in Europe were devoted 
almost exclusively to professional pursuits; and the many remains of Egyptian art which are preserved in the British and 
continental museums, have left but a vague impression on my memory. How invaluable to Ethnography are the two statues 
of the First Osortasen, now in the royal cabinet of Berlin! These I have not seen, nor the memoir in which Dr. Lepsius 
has described them. 
I have, for the most part, omitfed any remarks on the intellectual and moral character of the Egyptians, because they 
would have extended my work beyond the limits prescribed by the present mode of publication. I have also avoided, as 
much as possible, those philological disquisitions which have of late years combined so much interest and discrepancy, but 
which are all-important to Egyptian ethnography, and are daily becoming better understood, and therefore of more practical 
value. For an instructive view of this question, and many collateral facts and opinions, the reader is referred to the third 
volume of Dr. Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Mankind; a work which commands our unqualified 
admiration both in respect to the multitude and the accuracy of the facts it contains, and the genius and learning with 
which they are woven together. 
[look with great interest to the researches of Dr. Lepsius at Meroé; as well as to those of my friend Dr. Charles Picke- 
ring, who is now in Egypt for the sole purpose of studying the monuments in connexion with the people of that country. 
And finally, it gives me great pleasure to state that the profound erudition of the Baron Alexander de Humboldt is at this 
moment engaged in a work which will embrace his views on Egyptian ethnography, and give to the world the matured 
opinions of a mind which has already illuminated every department of natural science, 
