of the City Memphis. 5f 



particular Set or Syitcm of them, will be as uncertain and pre- 

 carious a Proof as Ruins. Whereas the T)elta is a fixed and 

 Itanding Boundary, lying at a determinate Diftance from ik/e';?^- 

 ph'is ; from which we find it no further removed in the ancient 

 Geography, than Geeza is in the modern. 



But even upon a Suppofition that thofe Traces of large a Rampart 

 Mounds and Channels at Metraheny, were the Remains of the F"ves ;»/..«- 



. ph:s to have 



ancient Memphitic Rampart; yet they will by no means de- been at 

 termine the Site, of this ancient City, to have been there. 

 They will rather prove the contrary ; inafmuch as the Rampart, 

 mentioned \)^ Herodotus, (p. 1 4.1. j lay a hundred Furlongs beyond 

 it to the Southward, (let Metraheny be the very Spot) and con- 

 fequently Memphis could not be fought for at that Place, but 

 a hundred Furlongs below, to the Northward ; or a little more 

 or lefs where we have the prefent Geeza. 



Another Argument, why we may fix the ancient AfemphisJ^^?''^^^^^ 

 at Geeza rather than at MetraJoeny. is the Situation of the^^ix: Geeza 



. . and the Py- 



Tyramids ; a Land Mark, ftill more certain and determined r^mids, the 

 than the Delta. Now Straho acquaints us, in one Place', that^^^'^ be- 



•* A T • 1 • 1 11 twixt Mem- 



ihey were near Memphis'., and, m another % that they w^ere/'/^'^ and the 

 placed on an Eminence, at forty Furlongs or five Miles Diftance 

 from it. Tl'iny^' makes the Diftance one Mile further, or fix 

 Miles ; the Difference poflibly arifing from hence, that Vlhiy 

 computed to the Tyramids themfelves, whereas Strata might 

 compute only to the Foot of the (opyvJj o'lppus) rifing Ground upon 

 which they were fituated. Now we commonly reckon twelve 

 Miles from the Village of Geeza, (which lyes upon the Banks 

 of the Nile,) to the Tyramids. If the City Memphis therefore 

 was five or fix Miles broad , and Diodorus Siculus * tells us, 

 it was one hundred and fifty furlongs, i. e. near nineteen Miles, 

 in Circuit ; then the Diftance affigned by Tliny and Straho is, 

 as near as may be, the prefent Diftance. Whereas, by placing 

 Memphis at Metraheny or Mohanan, the Tyramids will be at 

 three or four times that Diftance ; too far furely from being 



I AjofoivTSi y fvSttift (from Biil/jlon) nf^iuiyai eu UufCfji^./is h t« wipai* h Mf/jtjHj )^ fi'ei ■j^moy. 

 Strab.^ 1. 17. p. J J J. 



n(n, •m^ot Tr.v ^amXiav. Id. ibid. 



3 Pyramides fita: funt in parte Africs, monte faxco flerilique inter Memphim oppidum 

 & quod appellari diximus Delta, a Niio minus quatuor millia pafluum, a Mcmphi fex. 

 Ndt. Hill 1. 36. c. 12. 



4 Toi' (wV* «>' '5fe«'Sa^ov T«f 7n\ios IminTi suJ'iay txttrev )t) TnvrMoyTa, B'lhl. 1. I. p. ^6. 



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