of the City Memphis. 57 



That Kah'O takes up at prefent the Site of the ancient Babylon ^ 

 (contrary to the Sentiments of this Author,) wants no other 

 Proof, than what we have recorded of it in Ttolem)' ' : where 

 he tells us, that the Amyih Trajanus run through Babylon in 

 ifs Courfe to Heroopolis and the Red Sea. Now it is agreed 

 among all Geographers, that this Amn'is Trajanus is the fame 

 Khalis or Channel, (for there is no other,) which makes one of 

 the Streets of Ka'iro in the Spring, but, upon cutting down a 

 Bank at the Head of it, in the Summer, {Trav p. 4.57-) re- 

 ceives the Water of the Nile. And befides, from almoft every 

 part oi Kairo, and efpecially from the Caftle, (which was for- 

 merly the whole or greateft Part of the ^incicnt Baby Ion \) we 

 have a diftinct View of the Tyramids of Geeza, but of no 

 others. Thefe {^^^hM-yii k(pofi>nM„) are dijlin£tly feen, as Straho 

 exprelTes himfelf : and, in going the neareft Way to them, we 

 ferry over to Geeza, which is likewife (ev t« ^e^^ia,) on the oppo- 

 fite Shore \ as Memphis is defcribed to have been. But no- 

 thing of this agrees with Metraheny \ which, by lying feveral 

 Miles higher up the Stream, can have no fuch oppofite Situa- 

 tion. 



Another Argument, v^hy Memphis may be placed at Geeza, Memphis tim- 

 is the Defcription given of it by Herodotus. It was, fays hej^^inSenrr- 

 fituated (sv T^ Tiiico TTis A.^Trly,) in the Straights or narroweft V^xtoi^Egyst. "^ 

 of Egypt \ as Geeza certainly is. For over-againft it, on the 

 ^ftatic or Arabian Shore, is the rifmg Ground and the Moun- 

 tains upon which Babylon and it's Suburbs were founded ; and 

 on the other Side, are the Libyan Mountains and the Tyramids. 

 The River took up a great Part of this intermediate Space ; and 

 that fmall Diftridl of Land, which we now fee lying betwixt 

 the fuppofed Site of the ancient Memphis and the Libyan 

 Mountains, was formerly a Lake. So that very little, if any 

 at all, of this narrow Part oi Egypt, was capable of Cultivation. 

 Whereas, both above and below Geeza, the Country lyes more 

 open on each Side, and confequently will admit (as it probably 

 always did) of more extenfive Inundations. 



1 A? »f (H^dat otA/®-) iC) Eafi/Aaj.^ TtiuQi'-, TfdlttyQf mwuif ^h. PtoUm. 1. 4. D. 26^, 



2 Vid. Truv. p. 3-p. Not. 5-. 



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