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" a talent of filvcr daily to the royal treafu: 

 " and twenty minas only during the latter. 

 " According to t!ie natives of the coimtrv. 

 " canal is pierced acrofs the mountain, i 

 " extended chain of which commands Mem- 

 " plus. This is an outlet, by which the fu- 

 " perfluous waters are poured into the faruk- 

 " ofLybia, on the wcflern fide. I enquired 

 " what had become of the earth taken from 

 " the lake ; they allured me that it had beeit 

 " conveyed to the river, and carried by the 

 " current to aie fea." 



And then Mr Savary joins the report of 

 Strabo to that of Herodotus, as they throw 

 mutual light upon each other. 



" The province of Arfinoe contains the 

 " wonderful lake of Moeris. It refetnbles the 

 " fea in its extent, its colour, and its ihores. 

 " As deep as it is vaft, it receives at the be- 

 " ginning of the inundation the waters 

 u which would otherwife cover the harvefts, 

 " and the habitations of men. They are con- 

 " dueled thither by a great canal. When the 

 " s T ile fubfides, they return by two other 

 " canals, (thofe of Tamieh and of Bouch,) 

 ' which, as well as the former, fervc 

 1 watering die fields. All this is naturally 



" performed. 



