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au Caire. The French for Cairo is le Caire, like la Haye, la Mecque, E.B. 16, Obs. 3.

1. 13. membre de V Institut. Either of P Institut d'Egypte which was founded at Cairo in this year, Bonaparte having taken with him a great number of savants, or else of F Institut at Paris, founded in 1795 to combine the various learned societies or 'Academies.' In the latter sense membre de f Institut is nearly equivalent to F.R.S.

1. 15. la colonne de Po7npée, 'Pompey's Pillar,' a monolith set up about A.D. 300 to commemorate a victory of the emperor Diocletian. It has nothing to do with Pompey.

1. 16. l'aiguille de Cléopâtre. There were two obelisks at Alexandria bearing this name, and dating from about the 16th century B.c. One is now on the Thames Embankment, the other at New York.

L 17. de la Haute-Egypte, 'Upper Egypt,' i.e. further up the Nile. Notice 'de of the ulace where the troops were serving, just as V armée <L Italie means the French troops serving in Italy, E.B. 17 (3).

1. 19. les pylônes. The same word is used in English to denote the stone doorposts of the great gateways.

les cariatides, 'Caryatides.' Properly female figures used to support a rocf, &c. The Egyptian columns here alluded to are piers with figures of Osiris in front of them.

Thebes. Luxor and Karnac, with which we generally associate these remains, are the divisions of the ancient Egyptian Thebes.

1. 20. Memnon, a colossal figure, the head of which is now in the British Museum. The 'vocal Memnon,' which is supposed to emit a musical note when struck by the rays of the rising sun, is one of the two statues known as Tâma and Châma.

1. 23. les ordonnateurs, more fully Commissaires ordonnateurs des guerres, officers in charge of the non-lighting details connected with the army. They were afterwards (1817) absorbed in the Intendance militaire, answering to our Army Service Corps. Translate ' commissaries.'

1. 23. les savants. Men of science who accompanied the expedition, including Monge, the great mathematician, Fourier, the physicist, Berthollet, the chemist, &c.