the literary characters who accompanied the expedition, makes us lament that political circumstances prevented them from pursuing their researches for the advancement of natural knowledge, and the consequently common benefit of mankind. This system of Buonaparte, viz. the encouragement of the arts, and patronage of
velled by his order into the interior of Egypt, and made most important discoveries for geography, history, and physics. Nouet and Mechain determined the latitude of Alexandria, Cairo, Salehia, Damietta, and Suez; Lefevre and Malus surveyed the canal of Moèz; Peyre and Girard made a plan of Alexandria; Lanorey discovered Dabou and Menegda; Geoffroi examined the animals of the lake Menzaleh, and the fishes of the Nile; De Lisle made a catalogue of the plants found in Upper Egypt. Arnolet, and Champy the younger, were nominated to examine the minerals of the Red Sea. Girard was charged with the execution of a labour on all the canals of Upper Egypt. Denon travelled in Fayoum and Upper Egypt to design the monuments. Conté superintended the mechanic arts: he constructed windmills, and many other machines unknown in Egypt. Savary made a collection of the insects of the Desert of Syria. Beauchamp and Nouet arranged an almanac containing five calendars, viz. that of the French Republic, and those of the Roman, Greek, Coptic, and Mussulman churches," &c. &c.
