PREFACE.
The celebrated "Pantheon Ægyptiorum" of Paul Ernest Jablonski has been so long and so justly held in the highest estimation by the learned, that any new attempt to explain the riddles of the ancient Egyptian Mythology may seem, to those who are acquainted with that work, to be a superfluous and a hopeless task. To me, at least, it appears so probably that such will be the impression with which many persons will read the title of this volume, that I feel it incumbent upon me to give some account of my motives in offering it to the Public.
The following treatise owes its existence, or at least its publication in the present form, to some observations which a late writer of distinguished learning has founded on a review of Jablonski's work. The facts which it has developed, he remarks, inevitably lead us to the conclusion "that the Egyptian religion is the produce of the country, peculiar to itself, and without any
