[31] It is to be remarked that even in the “Thousand and One Nights,” where occasionally æsthetic observations are to be found, there is nothing relating to music which would lead us to estimate the musical tastes of the Arabs at any higher standard than that manifested in the account of Lepsius and others.--K. R. H. M. [32] Lib. XVII. p. 789, ed. Parisii, 1620.--K. R. H. M. [33] [See Bunsen’s Egypt’s Place, &c. vol. i. p. 624-5, and also the comparative lists of Eratosthenes and Manetho at pp. 124, 125 of the same work. “ὃς τὸν ὲν Ἀρσινοἷτῃ λαβύρινθον ἑαυτῷ τάφον κατεσκεύασεν.”--K. R. H. M.] [34] Compare my “Chronology of the Egyptians,” vol. i. pp. 262 sqq. [35] [Bunsen, vol. i. pp. 640-641.--K. R. H. M.] [36] According to Linant the difference is 22^m, i.e. 70 feet Rhenish. In June, 1843, Nascimbeni, an engineer of the viceroy, visited us in our camp by the pyramid of Mœris, being at the time engaged on a new chart and levelling of the Faiûm. He had only found 2 metres fall from Illahûn to Medînet, but from thence to the Birqet el Qorn, 75 metres. I am not aware that anything has been made known regarding these widely different measures. Sir G. Wilkinson, Modern Egypt and Thebes, vol. ii. p. 346, states the lake _niveau_ to be about 125 English feet below the Nile shore at Benisuef. [But see Bunsen’s observation in the (untranslated) second book of his _Ægypten_, p. 209.--K. R. H. M. 2nd edit.] [37] _Mémoire sur le lac Mœris, présenté et lu à Société Egyptienne le 5 Juillet, 1842, par Linant de Bellefonds, inspecteur-général des ponts et chaussées, publié par la Société Egyptienne. Alexandrie_, 1843, 4to. See my “Chronology of the Egyptians,” vol. i. p. 262 sq. [38] The same Domenico Lorda set out again in the same year to Abyssinia, and transmitted thence six other Abyssinian MSS. to Herr Lieder, who submitted them to me on my return to Cairo. These were also purchased for the Royal Library at my suggestion. They contain, according to the account of Heri Lorda:-- A. _Abusher_, Almanacco perpetuo civile-ecclesiastico-storico. B. _Settà Neghest_, Codice dell’ imperadore Eeschias. C. _Joseph_, Storia civile ed ecclesiastica(?) D. _Beraan_, Storia civile ed ecclesiastica. E. _Philkisius e Marisak_, Due opere in un volume che trattano della storia civile. F. _Sinodus_, Dritto canonico. [39] [See Bunsen’s Egypt’s Place in Universal History, vol. i. p. 632.--K. R. H. M.] [40] [Bunsen, vol. i. pp. 400-402. Het-her signifies “the habitation of Horus.”--K. R. H. M.] [41] [Bunsen, vol. i. p. 620. Therefore, about the time of Nitocris.--K. R. H. M.] [42] [Bunsen, vol. i. p. 624. Coeval with the pyramid of the Labyrinth.--K. R. H. M.] [43] [Bunsen, vol. i. pp. 624-625. Ramses is the third king in Manetho’s twelfth dynasty.--K. R. H. M.] [44] This letter, addressed to Alexander von Humboldt, has been printed in the “Preussische Staatszeitung,” of the 9th of February, 1844.