The _savans_ ransacked the monuments of antiquity, and formed collections which will ever reflect honour on their zeal and skill.

Napoleon himself visited the interior of the Great Pyramid, and on entering the secret chamber, in which, 3000 years before, some Pharaoh had been in-urned, repeated once more his confession of faith--"There is no God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet." The bearded orientals who accompanied him, concealed their doubts of his orthodoxy, and responded very solemnly, "God is merciful.
Thou hast spoken like the most learned of the prophets." While Napoleon was thus pursuing his career of victory in the interior, Nelson, having scoured the Mediterranean in quest of him, once more returned to the coast of Egypt.

He arrived within sight of the towers of Alexandria on the 1st of August--ten days after the battle of the Pyramids had been fought and won--and found Brueyes still at his moorings in the bay of Aboukir.

Nothing seems to be more clear than that the French admiral ought to have made the best of his way to France, or at least to Malta, the moment the army had taken possession of Alexandria.

Napoleon constantly asserted that he had urged Brueyes to do so.