9 6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



them perfectly, they brought me frefh water and fome fu- 

 gar-canes, which they fplit and fleeped in it. If they were 

 fatisfied, I was very much fo. They told me of a large fcene 

 of ruins that was about four miles diftant, and offered to 

 fend a perfon to conduct me, but I did not accept their of- 

 fer, as I was to pafs there next day. 



The 21ft, in the morning, we came to Gawa, where is 

 the fecond fcene of ruins of Egyptian architecture, after 

 leaving Cairo. I immediately went on lhore, and found 

 a fmall temple of three columns in front, with the capitals 

 entire, and the columns in feveral feparate pieces. They 

 feemed by that, and their flight proportions, to be of the 

 mofl modern of that fpeoies of building; but the whole 

 were covered with hieroglyphics, the old ftory over again, 

 the hawk and the ferpent, the man fitting with the dog's 

 head, with the perch, or meafuring-rod ; in one hand, the he- 

 rnifphere and globes with wings, and leaves of the banana- 

 tree, as is fuppofed, in his other. The temple is filled with 

 rubbifh and dung of cattle, which the Arabs bring in here 

 to fhelter them from the heat, 



Mr Norden fays, that thefe are the remains of the ancient 

 Diofpolis Parva, but, though very loth to differ from him, 

 and without the leaft defire of criticifmg, I cannot here be 

 of his opinion. For Ptolemy, I think, makes Diofpolis Parva 

 about lat. 26 40', and Gawa is 27 20', which is by much 

 too great a difference. Beiides, Diofpolis and its nome were 

 far to the fouthward of Panopolis ; but we fliall fhew, by 

 undoubted evidence, that Gawa is to the northward. 



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