Memnon--Is attacked with dysentery--Dies at Cairo--Character 168 VOLNEY. Born 1757.--Died 1820. Born at Craon in Anjou--His name first changed by his father, and afterward by himself--Studies the sciences with ardour--Is bequeathed a small sum of money--Determines to spend it in travelling--Proceeds to Marseilles--Embarks for Egypt--Alexandria--Cairo--Studies the Arabic--Defends Herodotus--Proceeds to Syria--Describes Mount Lebanon--Resides in an Arabian convent--Studies the Arabic--Visits the tribe of Bedouins--Is invited to reside among them--Describes the Druzes--Returns to France--Publishes his travels--Acquires a great reputation--Is compared with Herodotus--Is presented with a gold medal by the Empress Catherine--Publishes his considerations on the war between the Turks and Russians--Meditates the improvement of agriculture--Is elected a member of the Constituent Assembly--Connexion with Cabanis and Mirabeau--Anecdote--Returns Catherine her medal, and is abused by Grimm--Visits Corsica--Publishes the “Law of Nature”--Character of that work--Is imprisoned as a royalist--Travels in America--Well received by Washington--Dr. Priestley--Returns to France--Refuses to share the honours of Napoleon--Marries--Dies 219 EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE. Born 1769.--Died 1822. Born in Sussex--Is an idle student--Saves the life of his brother--Studies at Cambridge--Loses his father--Proceeds slowly with his studies--Fond of miscellaneous reading--Quits the university--Becomes a private tutor--Makes the tour of England--Publishes an account of it--Travels with Lord Berwick--Passes the Alps--Italy--Naples--Eruption of Mount Vesuvius--Is in danger of perishing among the lava--Engages to travel in Egypt--Returns to England--Is disappointed--Publishes a periodical work--Is again a private tutor--Engages to travel with Mr. Cripps--Departs from England--Sweden--Norway--Lapland--Gulf of Finland--St. Petersburg--Picture of the Russians and their emperor--Moscow--The Crimea--Professor Pallas--Constantinople--The Plain of Troy--Aboukir--Palestine--Egypt--The Pyramids--Antiquities taken from the French--Isles of Greece--Athens--Mount Parnassus--Returns to England--Created LL.D.--Takes orders--Marries--Sells his MSS. and coins--Enjoys pluralities--Sells the copyright of his travels--Lectures on mineralogy--Appointed professor--Studies with enthusiasm--Falls ill--Is carried to London--Dies 238 FRANCOIS LE VAILLANT. Born 1753.--Died 1824.