or River ^ Egypt. 55 



this Difquifition, to prove, that they had the Promife of it ; 

 and, at one Time or other, were in adual PolTeffion. For, 

 what Portions of it foever they might afterwards lofe or be 

 driven out of, it was intirely owing to their Sins and Tranf- 

 greflions; when, as the Sacred Hiftorians acquaint us, fuch 

 Cities or People as they would not conquer or keep in Sub- 

 jection, after they had conquered them, Jhould prove Snares 

 and Traps unto them and Scourges in their Sides and Thorns 

 in their Eyes, untill they peripjed from off that good Land 

 li/hich the Lord their God had given them. Exod. xg. gg. 

 Numb. 7,1. SS- 'Deiit.^i. 16. J0Jh.11. I3- &c. 



Now, from thefe Remarks and Obfervations, I doubt not but The Con- 

 it will appear highly probable, if it does not amount even to a^ " '°"' 

 Demonftration, that the River of Egypt and the Nile are one 

 and the fame River. Confequently it cannot feem to he 

 Without Dispute, as this Author has aflerted, tha^ 

 the River of Rhinocorura is the River or Torrent of Egypt; 

 neither are thofe Authors to he accounted False or erroneous, 

 who have maintained an Opinion to the contrary. 



C H A P. IV. 



The ancient Situation of the City Memphis, further in- 

 (quired into and confidered, 



FROM the River o^ Egypt, let us pafs over to the wefternjv/««/././Vnot 

 Banks of it, to the ancient City Memphis, which thislSly^" 

 Author places, not, as I and a great many more Authors have 

 done, (TV^-u. p.34-1.) at C^^^;^, but, 2it Metrahenj or Mohanan, 

 feveral Miles further to the Southward. IVloat fixes, fays he, 

 (p. 4.1. Vol. I.) the Situation of Memphis to this Tart, is Tlinys 

 .Account, who fays (1. 36. c. ix.) that the Tyramids were be- 

 tween Memphis and the Velta. But the fame Tliny acquaints 



belonging to the Arvadite ; of the Cities likewife of Shnyra and Areas, where the Xemarite 

 and Arkite had their PolTcffions, (Map. I. p. i.) In tlie Time o( Solomon, Jofephtis tells us, 

 that Banacates was the Vice-Roy of this Diitrid ; Tiii' Ji •sfei hfnh ^^m'cm ri^ Betva^w?. Aiitiq. 

 1. 8. c. 2. Tlic original Extent therefore of the Land of Promife, from the River oi Egypt, 

 to (tiie Entering in of) Hamatb, will be cccclx. Geogtaphical Miles j which is a very 

 large Extent of Country. 



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