in Egypt, Arabia Petrsea &'r ^^7 



Lakes abound with a Variety of excellent Fifh, which they 

 difpofe of among the neighbouring Villages; or elfe fait up 

 and fell to the Grecian Merchants. 



Damtata is one of the Hioft confiderable Cities for Trade inoami-ara or 

 Egyp. It lyeth upon the eaftern Banks of the Nile, at five^Hi'',"'''" 

 Mile's Diftance from the Sea^ and about fixty to the N. N. W. 

 of Tineh. The Branch that runs by it, has been generally re- 

 ceived for the Teluftac, by miftaking, no Doubt, this City for 

 the antient Telufmm ; whereas Dami-ata feems rather to be a 

 Corruption oi Thamiathis , it's former Name. This Branch 

 therefore, as well from the Situation as theLargenefs of it, fliould 

 be the Taihmetic, (or Thatmc as Sirabo calls it,) betwixt which 

 and the Teluftac, were the Mendefian and the Tanitic\ but 

 of thefe I could receive no Informations. 



Sixteen Leagues to the N. N. W. of the Tathmetic Mouth, iscape Bmi- 

 Cafe Briillos, where the Sehenniiic Branch is fuppofed to have''"'" 

 difclmrged itfelf : after which follow^s the Bolhitic, at feventeen 

 Leagues Diftance to the S. W. ^ W. This is called at prefent 

 the Branch of Rozetto (or Rajffid, as the Inhabitants pronounce Rozetto. 

 it,) from a large and populous City, that is fituated about a 

 League from the Mouth of it. 



At Me-dea, the antient Heraclium, four Leagues further, Me-dca or 

 there is another Branch, though muchfmaller than the former ; < 



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and two Leagues beyond it, in the fame wefterly Direction, we 

 have an Inlet and fome Ruins known by the Name of Bikeer. Bikeer or 

 As this Place lyeth five Leagues from Alexandria , and the ^^°''^^* 

 Branch of Medea feven, we may be induced, from the Au- 

 thority oiStrabo\ to take the one for the antient City CanopiA^, 

 the other for the Branch of the fame Name. But This, no 

 lefs than the Sehennitic and Teluftac Branches, are, at prefent, 

 of little Account, except at the Time of the Inundation ; the 

 Kile difcharging Itfelf chiefly at other Times, through thofe 

 of Rozetto and Dami-ata. 



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