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exa6lly anfwereth to this Circumftance, than at Zoan, a City 

 of the Tan'itic Nomos, where the fame Wind could not have 

 blown thofe Infeols into the Red Sea, but into the Mediterra- 

 nean, or elfe into the Land of the Th'iUftmes. For the Land 

 of Zoan, as it is mentioned in the Book of Tfalms, ( viz. 78. 

 i;.ix and 43.) is probably nothing more than another Appellation 

 for the Land of Eg/pt, by taking, as is ufual in fuch poetical 

 Compofitions, a Part for the Whole, and fubftituting one noted 

 Place, fuch as Zoan was in the Time of 7)avid, inftead of the 

 whole Country. 

 zozn /ay at a ^^y further, Drovidcd Jacob had direoled his Tourney from 



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the Eoad that Beerfljeha, towards that Part ofEg/pt, which was called Zoan, 

 ;κίο Egypt, it will be difficult to account for what is recorded by the 

 LXXII and Jofephis \ that his Son Jofeph met him at Hero- 

 opolts. For as this was a City of the Heliopolitan Nomos, which 

 bordered upon the Red Sea, where we have at prefent the 

 Caftle and Garrifon of Adjeroute, it would lye direolly in the 

 Road to Mem-pJm, but, out of it, in the Way to Zoan. The 

 jTieHdiopo- LXXII ' likewife {Gen.a^e.i.^.) initruft us, that Heroopolh was a 

 S'/]i°'SCity of the Land oi Ramefes-, which therefore could be no 

 Ramcfes. ^χ\^(^γ than xhcHeliopolttanNomos ^taking in that Part oi^rabia, 

 which lay bounded, near Heliopolis, by the Nile, and, near He- 

 roopolis, by the correfpondent Part of the Red Sea. 

 The Laud of Thc Land oiGofloen then was that Part of Ramefes or of 

 th^'eNciuZ- the Heliopolitan Nomos, which bordered upon the Banks of the 

 \Zio\L^^' Nile, uQ^x Heliopolis. For the Scriptures call It (Gen. 4-7. 6.) 

 the befi of the Land : and again, 1;. 11. we are informed, that 

 Jofeph gave his Father and his Brethren a ToffeJJion in the 

 Land of Egypt, in the befl of the Land, in the Land of Ra- 

 mefes-, i.e. Gopjen was the beft and the moil fertil Portion of 

 that Jurifdidlion. Now this could be no other than what lay 

 within two or three Leagues at the moft of the Nile : becaufe 

 the reft of the Egyptian Arabia, which reacheth beyond the 

 Influence of this River to the Eaft ward, is a barren, inhofpita- 

 ble Wildernefs. 



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