^5 The ancient Situation 



(arAM^nev) Near, according to the Expreflion o^Straho\ or at fix 

 Miles diftance, at the moft, according to Wmj'. 

 ThsPyramiJs This Vicinity betwixt Memphis and the Tyram'ids is further 

 and^yv/3°'L'illuftrated from the Relation each of them had to one and the 

 derthc fame fame Sandy Mountain of Libya: Memphis being defcribed to 

 be iituated under it, and the Tyram'ids upon it. And of this 

 Herodotus ' gives us fufficient Teftimony. For he tells us, 

 that Memphis, by being built upon the ancient Bed of the 

 River, lay under the Sandy Mountain of Libya \ which is like- 

 wife defcribed to be the only Sandy Mountain of Egypt, in that 

 or any other Diredlion. The like Appellations are given to 

 the Mountain upon which the 'Pyramids were built : for the 

 Stones employed in building them, are faid to have been car- 

 ried, from the Arabian to the Libyan Mountain \ And again, 

 over-^g2im{i the Arabian, is another Stony Mountain of Egypf 

 towards Libya, covered with Sand, where are the Pyramids, 

 There is fome little Variety indeed in thefe Expreffions, but 

 the Meaning and Intention is the fame ; To 4^^^jov cp©- and op©- 



•vj^^^uii) xajruX-AjJLfJ^^i, no left) than ^iSux^v op©-', op©- ttis Ai^Trly I2^i AiQmi 



and Myj-Tcr^i op©- r\ V7t\ M=-/^(pi©-, being Appellations of the fame 

 Force and Signification. Herodoti^sjm another Place, determines 

 the particular Quality and Height of this Part of the Libyan 

 Mountain, where the Pyramids were placed, by calling it (Ao'tpos,) 

 a Ridge or Eminence, fcarce a hundred foot high \ above (as 

 we may fupply) the Plains below. Now the opw^ o^pus, as Strabo 

 names this fame Part of the Libyan Mountain, being an Ex- 

 preflion equivalent to the a;^©- (or the l^m\^ eTravi^^i^o,, as it is in- 

 terpreted) oi Herodotus, we may prefume they are both de- 

 fcriptive of the fame Place ; and confequently, the fame Di- 

 ftance of fix Miles that is afcribed to Memphis from the one, 

 will be the fame with Regard to the other. 

 midlftma'- Neither, if Metraheny be the ancient City Memphis, will 

 ly feen f>om^]^g Accouttt bc ttuc which Strabo has given us of it i who tells 



Babylon , or o •' 



¥.airo. us ^^at // wos fituated over againfl Babylon ; and, that the 

 Pyramids could be feen diftin^ily from the latter of thefe Places. 



I To/ jaj •mTO-fjuiy ■mvia.'eieiy mi(^ ii i'p®' tb -^ij-luov isrtif A/St))*, Herod. p. I41. Ed. Steph. mt^tf, 

 7B oc@' 7T varsj Me^?/©-. Jd. p. ld8. ■\a.(J.yu>y f/Sw h.h/jrm 05®' ri-n -n vsrsp Mef/?/®- epfv. Jd. p. lOJ. 



a rig^f 71 AiCi/wv jtetXciIjuVof op©'. Id. p. I J J. To cT? «je#f Ai£J»f "f KiyuTrit'luQr hKo TnTfiyov tuva, 

 "w a <u Vlu^nfUihs 'iirnni -^y.iJ.a v.<n6i\>iij.[j^ov . Jd. p. 103. 



3 'Esun (T' ^ hotpn n auri a|i/ipo7»p*( UvfUfxiih^, jU<tA/sa if h.ajiv mJits !i-^y\h{tv. Id. p. I J/. 



That 



