[Footnote 128: A small volume, des Merveilles, &c., de
l'Egypte, composed in the xiiith century by Murtadi of
Cairo, and translated from an Arabic Ms. of Cardinal
Mazarin, was published by Pierre Vatier, Paris, 1666. The
antiquities of Egypt are wild and legendary; but the writer
deserves credit and esteem for his account of the conquest
and geography of his native country, (see the correspondence
of Amrou and Omar, p. 279 - 289.)]