The Revolutionary Plutarch Volume 2; To Which, as an Appendix, Is Reprinted Entire, the Celebrated Pamphlet of Killing No Murder (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...and Cape Boyau, as well as the Dibeh Mouth; entered the Lake Menzaleh, where he overcame the resistance of the Arabs, who opposed him with a hundred and thirty of the Egyptian craft, called dgermes; constructed strutted a map of the Lake, and measured with the chain the circumference of the coast, over an extent of forty-five thousand fathoms; determined the bearings of the islands., and discovered the ruins of Tinch, of the ancient Pelusium, and of Farama. Having performed this operation, he returned to Cairo; and speedily set out, attended 1y the savan Berthollet, to survey the Lakes of Natron, where he acquitted himself with the same diligence and success All the other Savans who accompanied Buonaparte were engaged in pursuits of greater or lesser importance, according to their powers: some ascertained points in geography, surveyed canals, and made drawings of buildings and monuments; others made collections and investigations for natural history, construclcd windmills, arranged almanacks, and even composed a journal. During these transactions, General Dessaix, in pursuance of the directions of Buonaparte, waged an active and prosperous war against, Mourad Bey, in Upper Egypt; although his enterprize was as dangerous as his proceedings were sanguinary. It is impossible to ascertain how far the people had been deceived by Buonaparte's hypocrisy, into an opinion that he was tie friend of their sovereign, u 3 and. and a zealous proselyte to their religion; but on the 2 ist October, 1798, immediately on the appearance of the firman, declaring him an enemy to the Porte, an insurrection broke out, though without any apparent plan or system of operation. The assembly of the people, their discourse, and their menaces, excited neither curiosity nor apprehension, ...