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Dr Pococke * fays, that the fituation of Memphis was at 

 TNlohannan, or Metrahenny, becaufe Pliny fays the f- Pyra- 

 mids were between Memphis and the Delta, as they certain- 

 ly are, if Dr Pococke is right as to the fituation of Memphis. 



Dr Shaw does not undertake to anfwer this direct evi- 

 dence, but thinks to avoid its force by alledging a contrary 

 fentiment of the fame Pliny, " that the Pyramids % lay be- 

 tween Memphis and the Arfmoite nome, and confequently, 

 as Dr Shaw thinks, they mult be to the weftward of Mem*, 

 phis." 



Memphis, if fituated at Metrahenny, was in the middle of 

 the Pyramids, three of them to the N. W. and above three- 

 fcore of them to the fouth. 



When Pliny faid that the Pyramids were between Mem- 

 phis and the Delta, he meant the three large Pyramids, com- 

 monly called the Pyramids of Geeza. 



But in the lad inftance, when he fpoke of the Pyramids 

 of Saccara, or that great multitude of Pyramids fouthward, 

 he laid they were between Memphis and the Arfmoite nome^ 

 and lb they are, placing Memphis at Metrahenny. 



For Ptolemy gives Memphis 29 50' in latitude, and the 

 Arfmoite nome 29 30' and there is 8' of longitude betwixt 

 them. There fore, the Arfmoite nome cannot be to the well, 

 either of Geeza or Metrahenny ; the Memphitic nome ex- 

 tends 



* pococke, vol. I. c?.p. v. p. 39. j Pun. lib, 5, cap. 9, t p l» n - lib - 3 6 ' ca P- I2 < 



