tifotigh Egypt and Syria; i^t 



cpert oppofife to each other. The other end is quite ruin- 

 ous ; hut, judging from circumilauces, it may be imagined' 

 that the building has never been much larger than it now is. 

 There is no appearance of any other edifice having been at- 

 tached to it; and the lefs fo, as there are remains of fculp- 

 ture on the exterior walh. In the interior, there are three 

 rows of emblematical figures, apparently defigned to repre- 

 font a proccllion ; and the fpace between them is filled with 

 hieroglyphic characters properly fo called. Th&J'rffil is alfo 

 adorned in the fame manner, but one of the ftones which 

 formed it is fallen within : the other (h'e remain entire. The 

 fculpture is lufficientlydiliiuguilhabls ; and even the colours 

 in fome places remain. It w as mentioned to Mr. Brown, that 

 there were many other ruins near; but after walking for fome 

 time where the)' were defcribed to be, and obferving that rough 

 ftones, apparently detached from the rock, were pointed out 

 to him as ruins, he returned fatigued and diflatisfied. The 

 fchechs Iiad prepared for them a dinner in a garden, where' 

 they were unmolefted by intruders; and the fun being then 

 near the meridian, Mr. Brown took the opportunity of ob- 

 ferving its altitude by means of an artificial horizon. The 

 refult was not materially different, though in the fequel he 

 repeated his obfe rvation : it gave N. L. 29° la' and a frac- 

 tion ; the Ion. E. F. 44 ^^ 54'. 



Mr. Brown having found a monument fo evidently EgN'p-- 

 tian in this remote quarter, entertained greater hope of meet- 

 ing with fomething more confiderable by going farther, or 

 fif being able to gain fome information from the natives, or' 

 the Arabs, that would fix exaftly the pofition of the remains, 

 ifanyfuch there were, of the far-famed temple of Jupiter 

 Amnion. He therefore applied to three of the fchechs whc 

 had (hewn themfelves molt friendly towards him and his at- 

 tendants, and having eiKjuired whether they knew of any 

 ruins farther to the weftward or fouth-weft, one of theirl re- 

 phed that there was a place {Arajchv.) where there were 

 ruins, but that it was iuipolhble to approach it, as it was 



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