APPENDIX, No. IV. 
483 
No. IV. 
Some Ohfer-vations on the account of Egypt given in the works 
of Savary and Volney. 
^'^OL. i. p. 27. Savary fays, Alexandria is only a village, 
containing fcarcely fix thoufand inhabitants. The fall of Alex- 
andria from its antient fplendour has already been remarked ; 
and how vague all computations of number muft necefTarily be, 
by perfons who refide there only for a few weeks or months. 
But Alexandria alone furnifhed to the Imperial army and navy, 
in the war with the Ruffians, four thoufand men able to bear 
arms. This, with other circumftances, might ferve to prove that 
the population mull greatly exceed the number mentioned. 
He computes the people of Damiatt at eighty thoufand, 
which appears no lefs extravagant on the other fide, and is 
certainly at leaft double the real number. 
Vol. i. p. 220. Savary's defcription of the topography of 
Memphis is characterized by an apparent error. He fpeaks 
of the fmall bourg Menf antiently Memphis, a little to the 
South of the Pyramids. It is fomewhat lingular, that no one 
writer before him Ihould have found a fpot fo remarkably 
coinciding in name with the antient capital. The writer of 
this inquired repeatedly for fuch a village, but always without 
efFed ; and Olivier and Brugniere, in the employ of the French 
3 Q- 2 Republic, 
