De Pauw, the great depreciator of every thing Egyptian, has, on the authority of a passage in Ælian, presumed to affix to the countrywomen of Cleopatra the stigma of complete and unredeemed ugliness. The following line of Euripides, however, is an answer to such charges:— _Νειλου μεν αἱδε καλλιπαρθενοι ροαι._ In addition to the celebrated instances of Cleopatra, Rhodope, &c. we are told, on the authority of Manetho (as given by Zoega from Georgius Syncellus), of a beautiful queen of Memphis, Nitocris, of the sixth dynasty, who, in addition to other charms and perfections, was (rather inconsistently with the negro hypothesis) _ξανθη την χροιαν_. See, for a tribute to the beauty of the Egyptian women, Montesquieu’s Temple de Gnide. Page 35.—“_Among beds of lotus flowers._”—v. _Strabo_. Page 36.—“_Isle of the golden Venus._”—“On trouve une île appelée Venus‐ Dorée, ou le champ d’or, avant de remonter jusqu’à Memphis.” _Voyages de Pythagore._ Page 39.—For an account of the Table of Emerald, v. _Lettres sur l’Origine des Dieux d’Egypte_. _De Pauw_ supposes it to be a modern fiction of the Arabs. Many writers have fancied that the art of making gold was the great secret that lay hid under the forms of Egyptian theology. “La science Hermétique,” says the Benedictine, Pernetz, “l’art sacerdotal étoit la source de toutes les richesses des Rois d’Egypte, et l’objet de ces mystères si cachés sous le voile du leur pretendu Religion.” _Fables Egyptiennes._ The hieroglyphs, that formerly covered the Pyramids, are supposed by some of these writers to relate to the same art. See _Mutus liber, Rupellæ_. Page 40.—“By reflecting the sun’s rays,” says _Clarke_, speaking of the Pyramids, “they appeared white as snow.” Page 41.—For Bubastis, the Diana of the Egyptians, v. _Jablonski_, lib. 3. c. 4. Page 43.—“_The light coracle_,” _&c._—v. _Amuilhon_, “_Histoire de la Navigation et du Commerce des Egyptiens sous les Ptolemées_.” See also, for a description of the various kinds of boats used on the Nile, _Maillet_, tom. i. p. 98. Page 44.—v. _Maurice_, Appendix to “Ruins of Babylon.” Another reason, he says, for their worship of the Ibis, “founded on their love of geometry, was (according to Plutarch) that the space between its legs, when parted asunder, as it walks, together with its beak, forms a complete equilateral triangle.” From the examination of the embalmed birds, found in the Catacombs of Saccara, there seems to be no doubt that the Ibis was the same kind of bird as that described by Bruce, under the Arabian name of Abou Hannes. Ib.—“_The sistrum_,” _&c._—“Isis est genius,” says _Servius_, “Ægypti, qui per sistri motum, quod gerit in dextra, Nili accessus recessusque significat.” Page 48.—“_The ivy encircled it_,” _&c._—The ivy was consecrated to Osiris. v. _Diodor. Sic._ 1. 10.