^1.2 Geographical Obfervations 



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

 of the Tanit'ic Nomas, where the fame Wind could not have 

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

 nean, or elfe into the Land of the Thtlifiines. For the Land 

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

 v.ii and 4-3.) is probably nothing more than another Appellation 

 for the Land of Egjpt, 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 David, inftead of the 

 whole Country. 

 zoxn/^yfa ^^y further, provided Jacob had diredled his Tourney from 

 the Rr.,,d that Beer/Jjeba, towards that Part 01 Egypt, which was called Zoan, 

 ;>/fo Egypt, it will be difficult to account for what is recorded by the 

 LXXII and Jojephus ', that his Son Jofeph met him at Hero- 

 opolis. For as this was a City of the HeliopoUtan Nomos, which 

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

 Caftle and Garrifon of ^djeroute, it would lye diredly in the 

 Road to Memphis, but, out of it, in the Way to Zoan. The 

 TA^Heiiopo- LXXII ■ likewife {Gen.^6.r^.) inftrud us, that Heroopolis was a 

 S/^°SCity of the Land ofRamefes', which therefore could be no 

 Ramefcs. Q^hcr than xhQHeliopolitanNomos ^taking in that Part of Arabia, 

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

 roopolis, by the correfpondent Part of the Red Sea. 

 The -Laud of The Land of Gofjen then was that Part of Ramefes or of 

 ti^Nc^hbli^r- the Heliopolitan Nomos, which bordered upon the Banks of the 

 hot iL^^' Nile, ^^^'^'^ Heliopolis. For the Scriptures call It (Gen. 4.7. 6.) 

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

 Jofeph gave his Father and his Brethren a Toffefjion in the 

 Land of Egypt, in the be ft of the Land, in the Land of Ra- 

 mefes', i.e. GofJjen was the bell and the moll fertil Portion of 

 that Jurifdidion. 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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