Ib.—“_The small mirror._”—“Quelques unes,” says _Dupuis_, describing the processions of Isis, “portoient des miroirs attachés à leurs épaules, afin de multiplier et de porter dans tous les sens les images de la Déesse.” _Origine des Cultes_, tom. 8. p. 847. A mirror, it appears, was also one of the emblems in the mysteries of Bacchus. Page 49.—“_There__ is, to the north of Memphis_,” _&c._—“Tout prouve que la territoire de Sakkarah étoit la Necropolis au sud de Memphis, et le faubourg opposé à celui‐ci, où sont les pyramides de Gizeh, une autre Ville des Morts, qui terminoit Memphis au nord.” _Denon._ There is nothing known with certainty as to the site of Memphis, but it will be perceived that the description of its position given by the Epicurean corresponds, in almost every particular, with that which M. Maillet (the French consul, for many years, at Cairo) has left us. It must be always borne in mind, too, that of the distances between the respective places here mentioned, we have no longer any accurate means of judging. Page 49.—“_Pyramid beyond pyramid._”—“Multas olim pyramidas fuisse e ruinis arguitur.” _Zoega._—_Vansleb_, who visited more than ten of the small pyramids, is of opinion that there must have originally been a hundred in this place. See, for the lake to the northward of Memphis, _Shaw’s Travels_, p. 302. Page 57.—“_The Theban beetle._”—“On voit en Egypte, après la retraite du Nil et la fécondation des terres, le limon couvert d’une multitude de scarabées. Un pareil phénomène a dû sembler aux Egyptiens le plus propre à peindre une nouvelle existence.” _M. Jomard._—Partly for the same reason, and partly for another, still more fanciful, the early Christians used to apply this emblem to Christ. “Bonus ille scarabæus meus,” says St. Augustine “non eâ tantum de causâ quod unigenitus, quod ipsemet sui auctor mortalium speciem induerit, sed quod in hac nostrâ fæce sese volutaverit et ex hac ipsa nasci voluerit.” Ib.—“_Enshrined within a case of crystal._”—“Les Egyptiens ont fait aussi, pour conserver leurs morts, des caisses de verre.” _De Pauw._—He mentions, in another place, a sort of transparent substance, which the Ethiopians used for the same purpose, and which was frequently mistaken by the Greeks for glass. Page 58.—“_Among the emblems of death._”—“Un prêtre, qui brise la tige d’une fleur, des oiseaux qui s’envolent sont les emblemes de la morte et de l’âme qui se sépare du corps.” _Denon._ Theseus employs the same image in the Phædra:— _Ορνις γαρ ὡς τις εκ χερων αφαντος ει_ _Πηδημ’ ες ἁδου πικρον ὁρμησασα μοι._