LETTER I.

The young prince visits Egypt--The acts of the Egyptian kings--The reign of Mœris--He constructs an immense lake--Inauguration of a temple--Splendid spectacle of idol-worship--Plain of the Mummies--Enlargement of Memphis--Discovery of treasures beneath the Sphinx before Chephres--The captive King Occhoris--Increase of Hebrews--Character of the reigning Pharaoh--His cruelty to the Hebrews--Good feeling between Hebrew and Egyptian women--Intelligence of the long-absent Remeses (Moses)--pp. 468-476.