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GENERAL INDEX. 
A BDALLAH, cntrufted with the com¬ 
mand in Africa, befieges Tripoli, 316 3 
his fuccefs, 317. 
Abdalrachman caliph of the weft, 321. 
Abercrombie, fir Ralph, lands at Aboukir, 
33 < 5 ; gains the battleof Alexandria, but re- 
ceivesa mortal wound, 337; his death, 338. 
Aboukir bay and lake, 363 3 ruins, 364. 
Abydus, 358. 
Achmin, ruins of, 359. 
Acoris. king of Egypt, 297. 
Acre befieged by the crufaders, 323 ; taken, 
324; the Chriftians deftroyed, 3273 at¬ 
tacked by Fonaparte and defended by fir 
Sidney Smith, 333. 
Adlifanes, king of Egypt and Ethiopia, 293. 
Aded, the laft caliph of Egypt, 320. 
Africa,its conqueft projefted by Othman,3i6; 
fuccefies and reverfesof Akbah and Haflan, 
317 ; ruled by the caliphs of the weft, 318. 
Akbah’s expedition into Africa, 317. 
Alexander Jannaeus, king of the Jews, 306. 
Alexandria, 290; the library burnt, 309; 
how treated by Diocletian, 3145 taken by 
Amrou 5 taken and plundered by Bona¬ 
parte, 329 ; attacked by the Englifli and 
Tuiks, 335; battleof, 3363 fiege of by 
Gen. Hutchinfon, 341 ; taken, 342; ac¬ 
count of the old city, 364; the pool, 
harbour, Pompey’s pillar, and Cleopatra’s 
needle', 365. 
Ali Bey the Great, 328. 
Amafis, king of Egypt, 295. 
Amer, caliph of Egypt, 319. 
Ammofis, 193. 
Amrou invades Egypt, 314; his narrow ef- 
cape, 315; takes Alexandria, ibid 3 his 
adminiftration, 316. 
Amyrtaeus, king of Egypt, 297. 
Antinoe and Befa, ruins of, 359. 
Antony with Cleopatra at Tarfus, 310; at 
Alexandria, 311 ; bis war with Oftavius, 
312; defeated at Adtium, and betrayed by 
Cleopatra, ibid, kills himfelf, 313. 
Apollinopolis Magna, 353 5 Parva, 356. 
Aphroditopolis, 358. 
Apries, or Pharaoh Hopkra, 295. 
Araba, valley of, 346. 
Arabia, a province of Lower Egypt fo called, 
363. 
Arabs, modern, 380. 
Archelaus marries Berenice queen of Egypt, 
307 ; defeated and killed, 308. 
Ariftomenes, a faithful minifter, put to death, 
302. 
Arfinoe, daughter of Ptolemy Soter, 299, 
Asfun, a village, 353, 
Afiuan, or Syene, 330, 353, 355. 
Afychis, king of Egypt, 294. 
Aziz, caliph of Egypt, 318; another Aziz, 
fultan of Egypt, 325. 
Bagdad, the feat of the caliphs, 318. 
Barabras, a peculiar people, 380. 
Barkuh, firft fultan of the Borgite mama- 
lukes, 327. 
Bedouin Arabs, 380, 381. 
Bees, curious particulars concerning, 387. 
Beliard, Gen. defeats Ofman Bey at Benhute, 
3303 take6 Coflir, 331. 
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EGYPT. 
Beneadi, maflacre there, 343. 
Benefech, the ancient Oxyrinchus, 3 60. 
Berenice, made queen of Egypt in the abfence 
of her father, 307; put to death by him, 
308. 
Beys of Egypt, formerly mamalukes, 328 ; 
feventeen of them murdered, ibid, more of 
them murdered, 325. 
Bibars, fultan of Egypt and Syria, 326. 
Biindnefs frequent in Egypt, 387. 
Bocchoris, king of Egypt, 294. 
Bonaparte lands at Alexandria, 329 ; which 
he takes, ibid, and Rofetta, ibid, gains the 
battle of the pyramids, ibid, enters Cairo, 
ibid, takes and plunders Jaffa, murders the 
garrifon, and poifons his own fick, 331, 
344 5 returns to Cairo, to fettle a govern¬ 
ment for Lower Egypt, 331; his civil in- 
ftitutions, 3323 quells an infurrediion at 
Cairo, ibid, befieges Acre, 33 3 3 afiifts at 
the battle of mount Tabor, ibid, defeated 
before Acre, 334 ; returns to Cairo, 333 ; 
gains a great vidtory over the Turks near 
Alexandria, and then embarks for France, 
ibid, refledlions on his expedition to Egypt, 
343 - 
Boundaries, extent, and divifions, of Egypt, 
289. 
Bubaftus, a province of Lower Egypt, 363. 
Burlbai, fultan of Egypt, 327. 
Bufiris, king of Egypt, 292. 
Caefar, Julius, his reception in Egypt, 309 ; 
fettles Cleopatra on the throne, 310 3 re¬ 
forms the calendar, 374. 
Cairo, or the Town of Vidtory, 314 ; taken 
by Bonaparte, 329 3 re-taken by Gen. 
Hutchinfon, 341 5 defeription of it from 
Denon, 362. 
Cairoan, a city in Africa, 317 ; dreadful bat¬ 
tle near that place, 318. 
Caliphs of Egypt, 314-320 5 luxury and ef¬ 
feminacy occafion their fall, 321. 
Cambyfes king of Perfia, fubdues Egypt, 296. 
Camels and other cattle of Egypt, 387. 
Canopus, ruir.s of, 364. 
Cephrones, king of Egypt, 293, 371. 
Chemmis, or Panopolis, 359. 
Chenubis, a city of Egypt, 356. 
Cheops, king of Egypt, 293 5 his monument, 
361; impiety, 371. 
Cleomenes, king of Sparta, 301. 
Cleopatra, widow of Ptolemy Philome tor,mar¬ 
ries his brother Phyfcon, 304; raifed to the 
throne, 305 ; expelled, ibid, raifes Alexan¬ 
der to the throne, 306 ; her death, ihid. 
Cleopatra II. 308 ; expelled 309 ; reftoredby 
Caefar, ibid, her connexion with Mark An¬ 
tony, 310 ; her behaviour at Jerufalem, 
311 ; her treachery 312 ; endeavours to 
gain Odtavius to her purpofe, 3135 her 
death and charadler, 314. 
Cleopatra’s Needle at Alexandria, 363, 378. 
Cneph, an Egyptian deity, 354. 
Conrad of Montferrat, defends Tyre againft 
Saladin, 323 ; murdered there, 324. 
Contra-Latopolis, 353; 
Coptos, or Keft, 356, 357. 
Curiofities, Egyptian, taken from the French 
by the Englifli, 384. 
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Damietta repeatedly taken during the cru- 
fades, 323 j deferibed, 363, 
Davalta, a village, 346. 
Davouft, Gen. takes and plunders Beneadi, 
336 - 
Delta, formation of that ifland, 366. 
Dendera, or Tentyra, 357. 
Denon, the only hiilorian of Upper Egypt, 
346 ; his account of the Egyptian mum¬ 
mies and burial-places, 351 ; of the fefti- 
val on Mahomet’s birth-day, 381. 
Defaix, general, commands the French if! 
Upper Egypt, 329 5 engages Mourad Bey, 
ibid, worlds him a fecond time, and takes 
Syene, 330; on his return towards Cairo, 
gains the battle of Birambar, 3 31 ; finilhes 
the war with fuccefs in Upper Egypt, 336; 
the extent of his march, 355, 
Djezzar, pacha of Egypt, 332 5 affifted in the 
defence of Acre by fir S. Smith, &c. 333. 
Dio the philofopher murdered, 308. 
Diocletian, his feverity in Egypt, 314. 
Diofpolis Parva, 358. 
Doyle, brigadier-general, takes a convoy be¬ 
longing to the French, 339. 
Duodecemvirate in Egypt,294; dilTolved by 
Pfammetichus, 295. 
Edko, a lake recently formed, 363. 
Edward I. of England, his exploits in Egypt,’ 
326. 
Egypt, ancient biftory of, 289-298 ; from 
Ptolemy Soter, till reduced to a Roman 
province, 289-314 ; governed by caliphs, 
314-321 ; governed by fultans, 321-325 5 
the Mamaluke fultans, 325.327; becomes 
fubjedt to the Ottoman empire, 327 ; and 
governed by a pacha, 328 ; invaded by the 
French, 329 ; delivered by the Englifh, 
332 ; curiofities and antiquities, 346 ; ig¬ 
norance of the prefent race of Egyptians, 
357 ; conjedtures as to the firft inhabitants, 
369 ; religion, 370 ; government and lan¬ 
guage, 371; hieroglyphics, 372, 376; 
antiquity as a nation, 373 ; knowledge of 
the fciences, ibid, meafure of time, 374 3 
the arts, ibid, buildings, 375, 383 j fculp- 
ture, 376; pyramids, obelilks, and fphinxes, 
377 i prefent inhabitants, 378; religious 
feftivals, 381; females, 382; manners, 
and prefent government, 383 ; language, 
money, climate, &c. 384; foil and pro¬ 
duce, 386 ; cattle, fruit, anddifeafes, 3875 
natural produdtions, 388. 
El-Hanka, battle of, 340. 
Elephantina, ifland of, 353. 
Embalming, how performed, 352, of the 
ibis, 370. 
Efneh, in Upper Egypt, 352 ; zodiac found 
there by Defaix, 374. 
Etfu, or the city of Apollo, 353. 
Ezzed-din Moaz, the firft Mamaluke fultan, 
326. 
Franks, to whom this name was applied, 322; 
driven out of Syrria, 323; and Egypt,326- 
Fry’s Egyptian alphabets, 373. 
Gantheaume, part of his fquadron taken by 
the Englifli, 340; and afterwards the re¬ 
mainder, 341. 
Gebe) Silfilis, quqriics of, 355. 
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