- This work, translated from the Danish, relates chiefly to the
botany, metereology, soil and productions of Morocco; and on other topics
it gives accurate and valuable information.
604. Viaggio da Tripoli alto Frontiere dell' Egitto. 1817. P. Della
Cella. - The scene of these travels must give them an interest and value,
since they embrace "one of the oldest and most celebrated of the Greek
colonies," and a country "untrodden by Christian feet since the expulsion
of the Romans, the Huns, and the Vandals, by the enterprising disciples of
Mahomet," The work, however, proves that its author was not qualified to
avail himself of such a new and interesting field of enquiry, remark, and
research, to the extent which might have been expected.
EGYPT
Whoever wishes to be informed respecting the state of Egypt and its
inhabitants during the remotest ages to which they can be traced, must
have recourse to the accounts given of them in the Scriptures, and by
Herodotus and other ancient writers. During the dark and middle ages, as
they are called, information may be drawn from the following sources.
605. Abdollatiphi Historiae Egypti Compendium, Arabice et Latine. Oxford,
1800. 4to. - There are several editions of this work: the one, the title of
which we have just given, was edited by Professor White. He also published
a preceding one without the Latin version; which was republished at
Tubingen, with a preface by Paulus. An interesting and instructive "Notice
de cet ouvrage," was published by Sacy, the celebrated orientalist, at
Paris, in 1803.
