THE American publishers of this volume, while they acknowledge the general accuracy of the author's statements, and the clearness and interest ing nature of the information he has laboriously collected from so many sources, feel themselves obliged to enter their protest against the disparaging and, in their opinion, unjust remarks with which it is interspersed, reflecting upon the scientific Frenchmen who accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt: the reverend author has not, in their judgment, done justice either to the efforts of those gentlemen, or to their success. It may be true that much was not accomplished which might have been expected from the magnitude and completeness of their preparations and appointments; but it is to be remembered that their time to investigate and explore was too often lamentably abridged, by the necessity under which they laboured of accompanying the rapid movements of the army: and no unprejudiced man will or can deny that the results of their exertions were highly important, and very honourable to themselves, when fairly estimated with a reasonable consideration for the difficulties and embarrassments with which they had to contend.