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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1790. Excerpt: ... LI. Chap, gold, of which nine hundred thousand were corrfumed by the pay of the soldiers135. Two authentic lifts, of the present and of the twelfth century, are circumscribed within the respectable number of two thousand seven hundred villages and towns,36. After a long residence at Cairo, a French consul has ventured to assign about four millions of Mahometans, Christians, and Jews, for the ample, though not incredible, scope, of the population of Egypt'37. First'nva- IV- The conquest of Africa, from the Nile to fion by the Atlantic ocean,3S, was first attempted by the Abdallah, A.D.647. arms HS Renaudot, Hist. Patriarch. Alexand. p. 334-. who calls the common readiny or version of Elmacin, error librarii- His own emendation, of 4,300,000 pieces, in the ix, h century, maintains a probable medium between the 3,000,000 which the Arabs acquired by the conquest: of Egypt (idem, p. 168.), and the 2,400,000 which the sultan osConftantinople levied in the last century (Pietro della Valle, torn i. p. 352; Thevenot, part i. p. S24.). Pauw (Recherches, torn. ii. p. 365--373.) gradually raises the revenue of thePharaohs, the Ptolemies, and the C sars, from six to fifteen millions of German crowns. J6 The list of Schulfens (Index Geograph. ad calcem Vit. Saladin. p. 5.) contains 2396 places; that of d'Anville (Mern. sur l'Egypte, p. 29.), from the divan of Cairo, enumerates 2696. 'J7 See Maillet (Description de l'Egypte, p. 28.), who seems to argue with candour 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. gypt. Arab, et Lat. a Joh. David Michaclis...