in Egypt, Arabia Petrsea ζ^€. ^^p 



fcarce two Yards fquare, which, upon being touched with a Key, 

 gives a Sound like a Bell. Some of the broken Pieces of Marble are 

 infcribed with Hieroglyi^h'icks\ a Circumftance which may in- 

 duce us to fufpedl, that this Pillar was not ereoled by the 

 Egyptians, but by the Greeks or Romans ; nay, later perhaps 

 than Strabo, who otherwife, it may be prefurhed, would not 

 have omitted the Defcription of it. 



The "Delia was computed to commence from the Canopied''' ^<^^^^ 

 Branch of the Nile , which hath been fuppofed to fall in at/?«™i' 

 Me-dea. From hence to Rozetto, the Caravans are guided, bS!" 

 for the fpace of four Leagues, by fuch a Range of Polls, as 

 have been mentioned in defcribing the Shibkah El Low de ah '• 

 The Channel which fupplyed Alexandria with Water, lyeth 

 all the Way upon the right Hand ; and, for Want of being em- 

 ployed as in former Time, difchargeth Itfelf chiefly into That 

 Qi Me-dea. There are few or no Tokens of the iVi/f s Inun- 

 dation to be met with from Alexa7idr'ia to RozetiOj the whole 

 Trad appearing to have been originally either a Continuation 

 of the fandy Coaft of Lybia, or elfe an Ifland. In Sailing S^^f 

 likewife to the Eaft, we fee, befides other fmaller ones, atT""•^;""'' 



y *^ ly jormea it. 



Hillock of fandy Ground, to the Eaftward of the Bolbutic 

 Mouth ' of the Nile^ another at Cafe Brullos, and a third to 

 the Weftward oiDam'iata. Thefe, may beprefumed, to have 

 been all of them originally Iflands, ferving, from their Situ- 

 ation, to give the firft Check to the Stream, and to have 

 thereby gradually coUedted and retained the Mud, that might 

 lay the firft Foundation of the 'Delta. Before this was formed, 

 it is probable that all or the greateft Part at leaft of the Lower 

 Egypt, was nothing more than a large Gulph of the Sea : and 

 confequently, the Ifland of Tharos, according to an Obferva- 

 tion of Homers ', might lye at the Diftance of a good Day's 

 Sail from what was called Egypt at that Time. 



Except at the Time of the Inundation, when the whole Coun-r). Ba,^ks of 

 try is covered with Water, no Navigation can be attended with 'if^ullt^ 

 fo much Pleafure as that upon the Nile. There is, at every 



I Vid. p. 211. 2 This fecms to be the fame, that is taken Notice of by Strabo, under 

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