memorials of those proud states, under whose tyranny it groaned.

Great have been my obligations to those acquaintance and friends, who rendered such essential services in furnishing me with a valuable supply of books. Besides the usual resource of private collections, I had access to the library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates, to those in the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and to the very extensive one of William Morehead, Esquire, of Herbertshire, in the county of Stirling.

With these observations, I commit my labours to the decision of the world; and wait with patience for that sentence which is to be pronounced. If it be unfavourable, 1 shall give way in silence to the feelings of disappointment; but

if encouraged by a generous approbation, I will cheerfully endeavour to render a future edition still more worthy of general acceptance and public esteem.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

BOOK I.

CHAP. I.

The situation and extent of Egypt.... The Nile.... The

climate.... The fertility of the country.... The ancient

inhabitants.... Of Thebes and Memphis.... The Delta.

. Of hieroglyphics, and the progress in the art of

writing....

CHAP. II.

The general manners of the Egyptians.... Their casts, or

classes.... Of marriage.... Arts and sciences....Py-

ramids.... Lake Moeris, and the Baher-bela-ma.

Morals and Religion.... Treatment of the dead....

Mummies... Mourning.... Buryings...

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BOOK II.

CHAP. I.

Of the sources from which this part of the history is

drawn.... The ancient mode of calculating time.....

Of Menes, Osymandias, Sesostris, and Pheron.... |

The siege of Troy.... Of Judea and Jerusalem....

Sebachus the Ethiopian in Egypt.... Sevechus and Sen

nacherib.... Tirhakah.... The twelve Egyptian kings.

CHAP. II.

129

Psammeticus.... The king of Assyria.

Pharaoh Necho.

The Jews led captive.... Psammis the king of Egypt.

Nebuchadnezzar's victories in that country... 168.

....

BOOK III.

CHAP. I.

Cambyses.... His attempt on Ethiopia and the temple of

Jupiter Ammon.... His cruel and imprudent conduct

in Egypt.... His death.... Of Darius and Xerxes....

Of Amyrteus, Pausiris, Psammeticus, Nephereus, Acho-

ris, Psammuthis, Tachos, and Nectancbus, on the throne

of Egypt..

191

CHAP. II.

Alexander the Great.... Goes to the temple of Jupiter

Ammon.... Builds Alexandria.... His successors...

Ptolemy Lagus acquires the sovereignty of Egypt.. 222

BOOK IV. '.

CHAP. I.

Ptolemy I builds a museum, and forms a library, at Alex.

andria.... The worship of Serapis.... Ptolemy II en

ters into an alliance with Rome.... Gives aid to Athens

and Lacedemon.... Recovers Cyrene.... and conquers

Antiochus Theus.... Of Ptolemy III.... The Achæan

league.... Cleomenes takes refuge in Egypt.... Ptole-

IV puts his brother to death.... Cleomenes illiber-

ally treated.... His death, and that of his family and

attendants.... The queen cut off.... Ptolemy V, young

at the death of his father.... His reign short..... 253

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CHAP. II.

Ptolemy VI falls into the power of Antiochus king of Syria.

His brother Physcon raised to the throne of Egypt.

Disputes ensue between the brothers.... Both ap-.

ply to Rome.... Ptolemy Philometor dies.... Physcon

becomes sole king.... His cruel conduct depopulates the

country.... He invites new inhabitants.. At his death

Cleopatra his queen reigns in conjunction with one of

her sons.... Much confusion in the country.... Thebes

finally destroyed; and Cyrenaica becomes a province of

Rome...

...

303

CHAP. III.

Ptolemy Auletes at Rome, and acknowledged king of

Egypt.... Unpopular in his government.... Clodius at-

tempts to violate Caesar's wife.... Auletes is driven

from Egypt, and afterwards restored.... The battle of

Pharsalia.... Pompey's death, and Caesar's transac-

tions in Egypt.... Cæsar returns to Rome, and is put

to death..

331

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