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of freestone. Its site is the same with that of the 

 ancient city oi Lycopolis*^ where they worshipped 

 as a sacred animal, not the wolf, for there are none 

 inEirypt, but Xhe. jackal, which seems evidently to 

 have been described by Herodotus, when he says, 

 that the wolves of this country are very little larger 

 than foxes •\-. There can remain no farther doubt 

 on the subject, when w ■ read the passage of Euse- 

 bius|., quoted by citizen Larcher, in his notes upon 

 tbe translation of Herodotus. '* Others say that 

 ** the Ethiopians having made an expedition 

 *' against Egypt, were put to flight by an immense 

 " multitude of wolves, and that this adventure 

 " gave rise to the name of Lycopolitus, given to 

 *' the «ow^ where this happened." It is well known, 

 in reality, that the nature of jackals is to assemble 

 themselves in great bodies. 



I presented myself to the Kias chef \n command, 

 called Daoudy with the letters of Mourat Bey. I 

 met with a very kind reception from him. Wish- 

 ing to procure for myself as much consequence 

 and protection as 1 could, in a city v^'here I in»- 

 tcnded to sojourn for some time ; I visited also 



* Pocock believed that Stout was the site of AntoeopoHs, al- 

 though Ptolemy has placed it on the eastern shore. Mr. Bruce 

 (Travels to the Sources of the Nile) conceives Siout to be erected 

 on the ruins of the ancient city of Isiu. 



t Book. ii. page 67, traiisl. by citizen Larcher, 

 J Prepar. Evangel, lib. ii, torn. i. page 50. B. C. 



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