th 

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^^ The ancient Situation 



us in another Place^ (1. y. c. 9.) that they lay hetwixt Memphis 

 and the Arfinoite Homos, and confequently muft be to the 

 weft ward o^ Memphis \ as they actually are^ provided (Pf^^;/^ 

 is the Site of that ancient City. 

 micf ^from" That this Defcription oiTl'tny\ is rather to be received than 

 Geo-Ti^'h"^ the former, appears from feveral geographical Circumftances, 

 hat "it was taken as well from that Author as others. 'Diodorus Siculus^ 

 (p. 45-. 5.5-0) acquaints us, that it was jnofl commodioujly 

 /ituated, in the very Key or Inlett of the Country, where the 

 River, beginning to divide it [elf into feveral Branches, forms 

 the Delta. This Account is further confirmed and more par- 

 ticularly circumftantiated by Tliny himfelf, who tells us (1. 5-. 

 c. 9.) that Memphis was only fifteen Miles from the Delta: 

 and Straho. (1. 17. p. 5'5'5-.) that it was Tejj^w(5>- only/ or ninety 

 Furlongs, which do not make twelve Miles. Ttolemy ' makes 

 a Difference of ten Minutes in their Longitudes, and the like 

 in their Latitudes, whereby their Diftances, by Computation, 

 will fall in very nearly with Straho's Account, and make little 

 more than xii. Miles. Whereas, if we are to look for Memphis 

 at Metraheny or Mohanan, where this Author has placed it, 

 the Diftance of it from the Delta, (efpecially as it is laid down 

 in his Map,) will be forty Miles ; i e. more than thrice as much 

 as it is recorded to be by two at leaft of thefe Geographers. 

 Thefe xhis Agreement therefore in Straho, Tliny, and Ttolemy^ 



Authorities *^ t-iri • n jT 



of greater ^ylth Rcffard to thc Diftance they have left us betwixt Mem- 



Wei'^ht than ^ , . 



Heaps of pjjis and the Delta\ and the fame continuing ftill to be the 



Ruiiis,Ram-i_ . „ , • i i ' ^ ct\ i 



parts &c. Diftance, as near as can be required, betwixt the Delta and 

 Geeza, appears to be a much ftronger Proof for fituating Mem- 

 phis at Geeza, than any Heap of Ruins, or any adjacent Mounds 

 or Channels can be, in Favour of Metraheny. For Ruins alone, 

 unlefs fupported by other Arguments, v/ill, in no Country, de- 

 termine the Situation of any particular City : much lefs in 

 Egypt, •^\\\ch. boafted formerly oiTwenty thoufand\ Moreover, 

 Mounds and Channels were fo common all over Egypt, that, 

 confidering the flucluating State of that Country, and the 

 Yearly Alterations that were made in it by the Nile, any one 



I The Point of the Df/r<f. 62'. o Long. 33°. Lat. 



Memphis - . . - 61°. yo'. 29°. yo'. Ptol. 1. 4. c. j-. 



particular 



