212 Geographical Ohfewations in the Inland Country 



at proper Diftances, to diredl the Caravans in their Marches 

 over It. Without fuch Affiftances, travelling would be here 

 both dangerous and difficult, as well from the Variety of Pits 

 and Quickfands, that could not otherwife be avoided ; as be- 

 caufe the oppofite Shore, (as we may call It,) either in paf- 

 fmg from Te-gewje to the Province of Nif-zowah, or from 

 hence to Te-gewJe, have no other Tokens to be known by, but 

 their Date Trees. And as Thefe are rarely feen at above fix- 

 teen Miles Diftance ; great Miftakes might be committed in 

 paffing over a Plain of this Extent, (where the Horizon is as 

 proper for Aftronomical Obfervations, as at Sea ;) without fuch 

 Convenient Marks and Direotions. 

 The Extent of This Lakc reacheth near twenty Leagues from E. to W. 

 '^' and the Breadth, where I paiTed It, was about fix. Yet it may 



be obferved, that it is not all of It a Colle6lionof Water; there 

 being feveral dry Places, which^ like fo many lilands, are m- 

 terfperfed all over It. To the Eaftward efpecially, in the fame 

 Meridian with Tekmeen, there is One, which, though unin- 

 habited, is very large and well flocked with Date Trees. The 

 ^rabs tell us that the Egj/ptians, in one of their Invafions of 

 this Country, halted fome Time at this Place ; and that thefe 

 Trees originally fprung from the Stones of thofe Dates, which 

 the Army brought along with them for their Provifions. 

 The palus The Situation of this Lake with regard to the Sea, the Sjyrtes, 

 Ψκιτο^^ιΓ ^'^'^ the River TVi/o», ihould induce us to take It for the Pa/us 

 Exc.p.i.O.fjrifoms of the Antients; and that the liland I have mention- 



p. 3. U. ii. p. ' 



14. D. p.i9ed is the Thla, which is defcribed by Herodoii^s, and the Cher/o- 

 ^■^• ' \ieius' of the Sicilian Ηϊίϊοϊηη. Tallas' likewik, who, with 



Phla Inf. -' t -t η r η • • ΎΎ• yir • τ^ 



£xf. p.z.D. the Ζ^^//?« Women, attended Sejojiris m His yijmtic Expedi- 

 tion and is fuppofed to owe Her Origine to this Lake, 

 might have had Her chief Reiidence in This Situation. Mela 

 placeth the Talus Tritonis near or upon the Sea-Coaft ; and 

 CallimachuSy (as He is quoted by Tlinj') on This, (i. e. as I 

 take it, on the Cyrenaic) Side of the leiTer Syrt'is ; both which 

 Circumftances agree with the prefent Geography of this Lake, 

 The Tr}pie ^^ "^^V likewife account for the triple Divifion that Tioleniy 

 oLfion of maketh of this Lake, bv taking that Part of It, which reacheth 



It. EXC.O.IA. ' ■' t? 



D. 



I Ti>- y «y ΑμαζόΐΛ! ** KVnu τπ,λΐν μί-^άκχ» htif 'f Texmr'iJhs κΊμνικ h &ϊ r ^ματΟτ Ovo,iMim ^Hovnimv. 

 Diod. Sic. Hift. I.3. p. 130. 2 Τϋΐ' ASmvay μιν^ι ΌΟ 'τίτκν r^ 'i.fjiay yn-j/JYi [^t-^o^Vnv] ^tmim <?3ί 7tJ 



Tfi7BV0"7io7ef<!, Λ"βΐ' i^Tf/TOri</keue»>»f^^. U. ibid. J. 3. p. 142. 3 Exc. p. 22. A. B. 



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