XVI 



THE PREFACE. 



But as it would have been too tedious, to have taken into Con- 

 ftderation all and every one of the Taffages, that have heen, ei- 

 ther controverted hj this Gentleman or looked upon as Miftakes ; 

 / have attempted to vindicate and illujlrate Juch of them only^ 

 as are of greater Moment andConfequence in Geography or Na- 

 tural Hiftory ; viz. fuch as relate 



I. To the Situation of the ancient River Eleutherus, the 

 City Orthofia, Simyra, &c. CHAP. I. p. i. 



II. To the River of Egypt ; whether it is the Nile, or the 

 fuppofed Torrent at Rhinocorura. CHAP. III. p. xi. 



III. To the ancient City Memphis ; whether it was Situated 

 BtGeeza ox Metraheny. CHAP. IV. p. 35. 



IV. To the Nile, and the Augmentation made, by it's Soil, 

 to the Land of Egypt. CHAP. V. p. 45. 



V. To fome Egyptian Plants and Animals. CHAP. VI. p. 60. 



VI. To the Paflage of the Ifraelites through the Red Sea ; 

 to their Stations afterwards at Elim &c. CHAP. VIII. 

 p. 98. 



How far I have fucceeded in the Defence of thefe Taints , 

 mujl he left to the Judgment andArhitration of the learned 

 and curious Reader, for whom alone This Supplement and the 

 Book o/Travels, {to which it refers,) arc intirely calculated and 

 defigned. The fame Apology therefore that was made, a few 

 Tears ago, in Vefence of the one, is to he now repeated in Fa- 

 vour of the other : inafmuch as neither of Them is intended mere- 

 ly to amufe and divert ; {as is commonly expe6iedfrom Books of 

 this Kind '^ hut, in a literary Way, {as far as the Author s Abi- 

 lities would permit,) to inform and inftru&', hy making the 

 ancient Branches of Literature receive Light from modern Dif- 

 coveries ; and hy making Thefe again, give Light to Them, in 

 their Turn. This, I pre fume, will always he reckoned, hy proper 

 Judges, among the moft ufeful and infiruClive Advantages^ 

 that can he reaped from Books of Travels : and for which we 

 may appeal to Pliny himjelf that great Mafter of Natural Hi- 

 /iory, who, in his Trefatory Difcourfe, feems to authorize the 

 fame Thing. Equidem ita fentio, fays he, peculiarem in ftu- 

 diis caufam eorum efTe, qui difficultatibus vidis utilitatem 

 juvandi praetulerunt gratia placendi. 



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