The Nile is the Nahal Mit2;raim ^c. 21 



upon the Atlantic Ocean ; and Tl'iny ', as he is authorized by 

 Xenophon Lampfacenus, places them amongft the (CapeJ^erde) 

 Iflands, two Days Sail from the Continent. How great foever 

 then the Affinity may be in their Names, (for Names do fome- 

 times very ftrangely agree, though the leaft Reafon cannot be 

 affigned for fuch Agreement, ) it appears, that the Circum- 

 ftances of the Stories themfelves, (it is of no Moment, whe- 

 ther they be real or allegorical) are different ; and confequent- 

 ly, that neither can the Gorgonice T)omm and Ras Sent be the 

 fame Place. 



CHAP. III. 



The Nile, and not the Juppofed Torrent at Rhinoco- 

 rura, is The River of Egypt. 



I 



Took it for granted, {Trav. p. g^rO that the River NileJ^^ ^}^% 

 was the River oi Egypt \ the Weftern Boundary, as it is^^^^^^j'^^'I 

 made in Scripture, of the Land ofTromife. This is flrenu- ","'''■".? ^"^^ 



^ . ■' ' the Nile, 



oufly controverted and denied by the Author 01 The 'Defcription 

 of the Eaft ; who places it at Rhinocorura or Rhtnocolura^ (for 

 it is differently written) twenty Leagues further to the Eafl, 

 where he fuppofes a Brook or River to empty itfelf into the 

 Sea. The River or Torrent of Egypt ^ fays this Author, (Vol. I. 

 p. 18.) feemSy Without Dispute, to he the Rivulet 

 near Rhinocorura: And again, in his Latin Diflertation; 

 F A L s o s itaque hahuit quo [dam ea opinio Torrente Egypti 

 innui Nilum. Let us then inquire into the Truth and Reafon 

 of thefe two, fb politive and peremptory Affertions. 



Now it does not appear, from the ancient Geography, ci-Rhmowura 

 ther facred or profane, that Rhinocorura, or any City of Note known in 



oijelhua, 

 SquaUebant late Pborycnldos arva Medufa, 

 Non nemorum protect a coma, mn mollia fulco, 

 Sed Domhu vultu confpeciis afpera Saxis. Luc. I. ix. 



I. Hefperion Ceras inde primuni circumagente fe terrarutn fronte in occafum ac mare 



Atlanttcmn. Contra hoc promontorium Gorgades Infulae narrantur, Gorgomm quondam 

 domus ; bidui navigatione diftantcs a continence, ut tradic Xenophon Lawpfacenus, Plin. 

 Nat. Hift. 1. 6. cap. 31. 



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