E G Y P T.
Extent.— Original Population.— ProgreJJive Geography.-Religion.— Go-
% internment.—^Population.—rReve&ues.— Manners and-\Qufiams.— Lan-
~ilguage.^€ities.^Clmate,-~p?.Country.—-Rivers.—-Lakes.— (
i^dountains.— Botany—Zoolp0.—r-Mineralogy.
THIS country, -celebrated from the» earlieft ages of antiquity,„and
recently a ^Ijtigg^iflied fcene* or* Britifh vajppr, both, b|ffra and,
land,J§ about ^oo miles»in length from nqrth-tp Iputhi and^including Extent.
the, greater-and leffer Oans, about half that breadth. Butjjy^ appearance
is;, merely* nominal; Egypt, being,in fad, a narrow^^pi'bpth
lides of the river-Nile, founded by parallel ridges 6^n^^t|ms hills.
IkfcgnB: j^hage^heeiivar|ginaHy. peopled jfronu rtie northern parts of ^rigiriar Po.
Arabia,- os •from Syria; the Egyptians and Ahyffiniaps: haying ^
all ^ages; wholly diftind: from the native nariona of Africa. A late itK,
telligept traveller^ remarks1 that the Copts, q^^riginal.jnhabitahts-
have no refcmblauce of the negro features-or form. The gyes are' dark,,
and the hair often curled, but not in a^grpatendegree^ than,T£- Rffifr*
fioifalk Teen-among Europeans. • “ The^ npfiyi;s?p£ten^
though the lips be fometiipes thick, by no means generally, fo,; on,
the whole a ftrong refpmb^ance may Jie3traced, thf^fsr^|b|j
vifage in the modern Coptg, and that; prpfentpd in the ang|pjntfiummjies, |
paintings, and ftatues. Their complexion,'like that of the Arabs, Is'm, v
a dufky brown ; it is reprefented of the fame colour in the painting^
which I have feen in the tombs of Thebes.” Volngy had o|ly, to
* Browne, 71, .
■ Vox. t l, . 5 A x . , infpedt.