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to such a dcgreej as to render it sometimes in- 

 supportable. I never felt it so violent as on the 

 day after my arrival at Echmhnm ; that is to say, 

 the 3d of the month of June. At four in the af- 

 ternoon, the mercury in Reaumur's thermometer, 

 placed in the shade, rose to 36°. The wind was 

 to the north-east ; but although it blew forcibly, 

 it heated the air instead of cooling it, the sandy 

 plains which it travelled over having caused it to 

 contract an intense heat. 



PanopoUs and Chemmls are the same city, under 

 two names, of which the one is Greek, the other 

 Egyptian ; and the Egyptian name subsists still at 

 this day, in that of Echmhnm*. Remains of the 

 ancient city are still to be seen to the eastward, and 

 near the enclosure of the modern town. I observ- 

 ed there an enormous mass, consisting of a single 

 stone. On one of its sides a Greek inscription was 

 engraved in rude characters. It is ahnost entirely 

 effaced, and I could not distinguish clearly upon 

 it any thing but the word TIBERIO. A portion 

 of this remarkable stone, and consequently of the 

 inscription, is hidden in the earth. That which 

 apoears above it is seventeen feet in length, eight 



* Danville. Memoir upon the Difference of Latitudes and 

 Longitudes between Alexandria and Sienna. Memoirs of the 

 Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, vol. xxix. 



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