xiv PREFACE TO SECOND SECTION 
of his own narrative was often interrupted by 
fatigue or by illness. 
A more accurate representation of the appear- 
ance of antient Inscriptions upon Greek Marbles, 
than had appeared in former books of travels, it 
is presumed has been adopted. For this pur- 
pose, a new species of type was invented by the 
author, and used in former publications. It has 
already received the approbation of literary 
men ; the Society of Antiquaries having applied 
to the University of Cambridge for the loan of 
these types, when engaged in publishing the 
late Professor Porson's restoration of the cele- 
brated Rosetta Inscription. Considerable atten- 
tion has also been paid towards making im- 
provement in the Plates : and a new mode of 
representing Hieroglyphics will be found in the 
Fac-Simile of a Tablet discovered among the 
Ruins of Sais^. 
It may, perhaps, be deemed a bold acknow- 
ledgment to confess, that the account of Helio- 
polis, and of the Memphian Pyramids, was writ- 
ten without consulting a single page of Jacob 
Bryants " Observations upon the Antient His- 
(1) See the <2u;;vtt) Edition- 
