list of those known there in former times, and point out such as appear, from the authority of competent writers, or from being found embalmed in the tombs, to have a claim to that title; arranging them under their respective heads of Mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects, to which I shall add some of the holy members of the vegetable kingdom. Bronze Apis, in the possession of Miss Rogers.-Fig. 2. The devices on its neck and back. 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. Champollion thinks it the same as Basis. Vide infrà, p. 198. Perhaps the same as the Antilope Bubalis? ¶ Vide my Egypt and Thebes, p. 423. |