OF PART THE SECOND. XXV 
indebted to two very learned Oriental scholars :— 
Mr. Hammer, Secretary of the German Em- 
bassy at Constantinople\ furnished an interpre- 
tation of the List of Tales contained in a manu- 
script copy of The Arabian Nights, which the 
author obtained in Egypt, and to which allusion 
is made in the Second Chapter*^. 
The Rev. George Cecil Renouard, M.A. 
Fellow of Sidney College, Cambridge, late Chap- 
lain to the British Factory at Smyrna, contributed 
the translation of a Catalogue of Manuscripts on 
daily sale in the cities of the East ; which was 
procured by the author through the friendly 
offices of a Dervish in Constantinople. This Cata- 
logue may be considered as presenting a better 
view o^ Asiatic, than would be afforded oi Euro- 
pean, literature, by combining two or three of 
the common catalogues published by the prin- 
cipal booksellers of London and Paris ; because 
less variety characterizes the different catalogues 
of the East, than will be found to distinguish 
(1) Mr. Hammer accompanied the author in Egypt, and resided a 
short time in Grand Cairo. He obtained in that city, of the celebrated 
Consul Rosetti, an /^raftic Manuscript concerning Hieroglyphics, which 
was afterwards published in England by Dr. jnikins. 
(2) This beautiful Manuscript, contained in four quarto portfolios, 
was damaged by the wreck of the Princessu merchantman, off Beackz/ 
Head. It has been sent to Constantinople to be transcribed, but liiLis 
liopes are entertained of its entire restoration. 
