[Footnote 137: See Maillet, (Description de l'Egypte, p.
28,) who seems to argue with candor and judgment. I am much
better satisfied with the observations than with the reading
of the French consul. He was ignorant of Greek and Latin
literature, and his fancy is too much delighted with the
fictions of the Arabs. Their best knowledge is collected by
Abulfeda, (Descript. Aegypt. Arab. et Lat. a Joh. David
Michaelis, Gottingae, in 4to., 1776;) and in two recent
voyages into Egypt, we are amused by Savary, and instructed
by Volney. I wish the latter could travel over the globe.]