484 APPENDIX, No. IV. 
Republic, who paffed feveral months in Egypt, nearly at the 
fame epoch, were equally unfuccefsful in their refearches. So 
that it would feem fair to pronounce that no fuch place exifts. 
The only town in Egypt which bears even a diftant refemblance 
to the name of Memphis, is Menuf^ which is many leagues 
to the North, and within the Delta. 
P. 275. The ftory of Murad Bey difcovering his father, 
it is fomewhat furprifmg fhould have efcaped all the merchants 
refiding in Egypt, fome of them almoft half a century, and 
always eager for anecdotes of this kind. The inventive talent 
of the Greek fervants is indeed often put in activity to amufe 
ftrangers with fuch tales, but Savary, who was fo ex- 
perienced in Egypt, fhould have had more difcrimination than 
to blend des contes de ma mere Voye with hiftoric narration. The 
facfts are wholly difcordant. — The man is a labourer of the 
environs of Damafcus, Murad Bey a native of Georgia. — To 
go from Damafcus to Kahira he embarks at Alexandretta, feven- 
teen days journey N. W. of Damafcus, when he might have 
gone to Beirut, Seide, Akka, or Yaffa, each of them four 
days. This labourer travels with the eccentricity of a comet ; 
and even the French philofopher is loft in calculating his courfe. 
But Savary was writing on Egypt, and is not obliged to know 
the geography of Syria. 
P. 288. J'ai tue plufieurs Ibis dans les marais pres de 
RofTette. lis ont les pattes longues, le corps mince, alterna- 
tivement blanc et noir, et le col allonge. lis vivent de poiffons, 
de grenouilles et de reptiles. 
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