26 The Nile is the Nahal Mitzraim, 



A River at gut, upoii the vcrv Suopofition, that there was a Torrent 

 could with or Rivulet at Rhinocorura\ yet, with what Propriety could 



no Propriety r-r-< ^ • 



be called The t^is be Called The Rtver of Egypt i a Country with which it hath 



River of E- . . -r* r i • i • 



£«>'• no Communication ; no Fart of which it waters : which would 



likewife be, in direft Oppofition to, or exclufive rather of the 

 Nile, the proper and the only River of Egypt. For Nahal 

 Mitzraim (the River of Egypt) is as local and determinate an 

 Expreffion, as Dnvo v">^ ^retz Mitzraim, CtheLand oiEgj'pt,) 

 the one as well as the other having the fame Relation to Jk///^- 

 raim ; whether Mitzraim be rendred Egyp or the Egyptians. 

 There would therefore be the fame Reafon and Propriety, as 

 certainly there can be none, to look for the Land, as for the 

 River o^ Egypt, -xtRhinocorura. Moreover, when a River takes 

 it's Name from a Country, it furely muft be fuppofed to be- 

 long to, and to make a Part of that Country. When Abana 

 and Tharfar are faid to be Rivers of 'Damafcm, w^e imme- 

 diately conclude that 2) am a fc7^s muft be watered hy the u^l^ana 

 and the Tharfar. To conclude otherwife, would be to confound 

 the Ideas and Properties of Names as well as Things : it would 

 be the fame, in the prefent Cafe, as if we were to make the 

 Land of the Thiliftines, of which Rhinocorura was originally 

 a Portion, a Part of the Land of Egypt \ and the Land oi Egypt, 

 a Part of the Land of the Thiliftines. 

 5^/^J;'°dif Foi* we do not find, that the fettled Boundaries o^ Egypt, 

 beJonrSe either bcfore or at the Time of Joftjua, reached beyond the 

 ^'^"^ Nile: the great Fertility of it being equivalent to a much 

 larger Extent of Country. Agreeable to which, is the De- 

 fcription given us of it, by Herodotus : That is Egypt, fays 

 He ', which is inhahited hy the Egyptians ; and again, Thofe 

 are Egyptians who drink of the Nile. And as the Egyptians 

 lived then, as they may be fuppofed always to have done, 

 within the Reach and Influence of that River, (inafmuch as 

 what lay beyond it on both Sides, belonged either to Libya or 

 Arabia *) the Borders of Egypt, (i. e, of the Land of Zoan, or 

 the 'Delta, in particular,) i Kings 4. 21. iChron.^. 16. and 



1 ©tof ?ctf A'/jciTTOf ftcai ■mt-ni th o 'H^KQf '(Shai A'^ht. Herod, p. lo8. Kai AiyvTriinf itvat Tinf, 

 c/f efjf^f EM^iuvryif Tnf^tQf oixiofTiC) &9 78 7re7*/i/» tbiItk ■mrouffi, p. id. 



2 Arabia conterminum claritatis magnae, foils Op pid urn. ?//?;. 1. j-. c. p. Ultra Pelufia- 

 cum oftium Arabia eft. Id. ibid. c. v. Alexandria, a magno Aiexandro condita, in Africa 

 parte, ab oftio Canopico xii. M. P. Ibid. c. x. 



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