son of Naspihiniegori, incense bearing Priest in the Temple of Ammon at Thebes.” This inscription was repeated three or four times on the bandaging, between the body and the external surface of the wrappers, but there was no appearance of any painting whatever on them. FOOTNOTES: [1] Lord Bacon, on the Advancement of Learning. [2] The prodigious collection of Mexican relics, presented by the publication of Lord Kingsborough’s splendid work, is among the most interesting records of an infant civilization ever laid before the world. [3] Mandioca, called, in the West Indian islands, Cassava. The planting, gathering, storing the roots, grinding, and finally separating the meal from the fine gum called Tapioca, suppose a long period of experience and great ingenuity. [4] See Humboldt’s Researches, in one of the plates to which there is a _picture law-suit_, of mixed realities and symbols. The small golden figures, thought to be idols, found in some parts of Peru, and of which I saw one in the possession of T. Bigg, Esq., belong to the jewellers’ art rather than to legitimate sculpture. That which I saw, was ingeniously formed of gold wire, various coils and folds of which were twisted into the form of legs and arms, a body and head, with the features of the face; very frightful, it is true, but still with a sufficient degree of imitation to be the likeness of a man. The Terra Cottas and stone or marble figures of Mexico, are of a higher class. [5] See some excellent observations of Mr. Wilkinson, as to the agreement of the book of Genesis and the Egyptian documents on this point. [6] Pausanias, in the fifth chapter of the Corinthiacs says, that the Sicyonians assert that Ægialeus was the first _native_ of the place, and that he named the country Ægialeus, and the city Ægialea. _Taylor’s Translation._ [7] Chap. xv. v. 16. [8] I am obliged to a learned friend, for the above explanation of the meaning of the names Debir and Kirjath Sepher. To the same friend I owe many corrections and suggestions of great value to me in the following pages. [9] See the figures and inscriptions on the curious cups belonging to three of the most ancient Chinese dynasties, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. [10] A change is taking place in Chinese art. The portrait painters of the celestial empire are beginning to imitate those of Europe. This year (1836) there is one in the Exhibition at Somerset House that was taken for the work of a European artist by the academicians who first saw it. [11] The account of Mahabalipoor, or Mavellipoor, in the first Volume of the Asiatic Researches, is erroneous. The author seems to have seen but two of these temples, and to have mistaken the place of them. The largest is forty-seven feet long and twenty-five feet high. The second is twenty-seven feet long and thirty-six feet high.