206 PYRAMIDS OF DJIZA. 
CHAP, fond of pursuing the mazes of antient history, 
IV 
I .^ ' i offer such alluring deviations from the main 
route, as might lead both him and his reader 
into almost endless digression : the vestiges of 
antient art, and the remains of antient customs, 
visible in our daily walks and in every haunt of 
society, so frequently suggest themselves to 
philosophical reflection, that, if due attention 
were paid to them, whole volumes would be 
inadequate to the dissertations that might be 
written. A few observations only, selected from 
the pages of an author who has expressed a 
similar observation ; and who, most learnedly 
illusti"ating the arts of painting and writing 
among the antient Egyptians ', has concentrated 
within a small compass whatever might have 
been added upon these topics ; may terminate 
this chapter. 
Extract «< The numbcr of things to be spoken of here 
from , . . 
Pahw. will not permit us to treat of each in particular; 
for it is necessary sometimes to neglect details, 
and confine ourselves to essentials only, that a 
chapter may contain what might otherwise re- 
quire a whole book. The loss of the greater 
(1) Philosophical Dissertation on the Egyptunis and Oiinese, by 
De Pauw, vol. I. pp. 187, lfe8, 189, 190, 202, 203. Lond. 1795. 
