* Formerly placed among the Rodentia. + Egypt has only the Camelus dromedarius of Linnæus, or one-humped camel; the dromedary being a variety of it. The two-humped (of which species all are camels and none dromedaries) is the Camelus Bactrianus, and is unknown in Egypt. Vide Vol. III. p. 24. Perhaps the same as the Antilope Bubalis? Champollion thinks it the same as Basis. Vide infrà, p. 198. ¶ Vide my Egypt and Thebes, p. 423. Clemens says, " Ægyptii in sacris ponunt sphingas, utpote quod de Deo oratio sit ænigmatica et obscura. enim simul et hominis imaginem sphinx significat," Strom. v. p. lat. Ferm I have already noticed the birds occurring in the sculptures of Ancient Egypt, and |