Obfervatwns in Egypt. 4^p 



Soil, whereby not only the Land, ahxady made, would be 

 raifed, but the Soil would be likewife extended to the very 

 Skirts of the Valley, the Sea gradually excluded, and confe- 

 quently a Foundation laid for new Plantations. 



That Egypt was raifed and augmented in this Manner, ap-r-^^^^ Egypt « 

 pears from feveral Circumftances. For, whereas the Soil of Ν^ιί' "Lvd 

 other plain Countries is ufually of the fame Depth, here we find itiT^vJ^t 'i'- 

 vary in Proportion to the Diftance from the River; being S^'^^t 

 fometimes, near the Banks, more than thirty Foot high, whilft'"'"^'• 

 at the utmoft Extremity of the Inundation, it is not a Quarter 

 Part of lb many Inches. The Method of raifing Mounds ', in 

 order to fecure their Cities from the Violence of the Inunda- 

 tion, is another Argument. For as it may be prefumed, that 

 all the Cities of Egj/pi were originally built upon artificial 

 Eminences', raifed for the Purpofe , fo, when the circum- 

 jacent Soil came to be fo far increafed, as to lye nearly upon 

 a Level with thefe Cities, the Inhabitants were then obliged 

 either to mound them round, or elfe to rebuild them. The for- 

 mer Experiment feems to have been often repeated ^t Memphis • 

 the Want whereof hath been the Reafon, no Doubt, why we are 

 not fure, at prefent, even of the Place, where this famous City- 

 was founded. The Situation likewife of the Temple, in the 

 City οι BuhaftiSy is another Circumftance in Favour of this 

 Hypoihefis. For when the City was rebuilt and raifed higher, 

 to lecure it from the Inundation ; the Temple \ for the Beauty 

 of it \ was left (landing in it's primitiveSituation,and being there- 

 fore much lower than the new Buildings , they looked down 

 upon it from every Part of the City. In like Manner Helio- 

 polls, which, Strabo tells us, was built upon an Eminence', 

 is now one of the Plains oi Egjypt, and annually overflowed 

 with fix or eight Foot of Water. Neither is there any Defcent, 



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