of the City Memphis. ^ 9 



are jio where elfe to he feen \ Tliny^ obferves the fame Num- 

 ber, and that they were very confpicuous (as they and no others 

 remarkably are) to thofe who fail upon the Kile\ — that the 

 fmalleft is covered with Ethtopic Marble ; and, what will iden- 

 tify them beyond Difpute ; that the Sphinx (and there was 



no other) lay before them. 



There are feveral other Tyramids indeed in the Libyan De- The other 



^ ^ Pyramids or 



ferts, to the Southward ; fome of which are of equal T>imQn- ^Jff}'^^^ 



' ' i taken Notice 



lions, and not inferior, in their Stru(5lure and Materials, to of by the 



r ^ n A ^ r Ancients. 



thofe of Geeza. But none of thefe have been fo particularly 

 taken Notice of; or even taken Notice of at all, fo as to inter- 

 fere in this Difpute. As thefe therefore, I have mentioned, 

 can be no other than the Tyramids of Memphis , it is very 

 reafonable to conclude, that the City itfelf, from whence they 

 were denominated, could not lye at a Diftance from them, but 

 Ihould rather be in their very Neighbourhood, or where Geeza 

 is now placed. For if Memphis had been fituated at or near 

 Metraheny or Mohanan, according to the Opinion of this Au- 

 thor ; then the Tyramids oiDaJJjour or thofe ofSaccara, which 

 lye much nearer; (as they without doubt would have been 

 taken Notice of by the Ancients, fo they) would have laid a 

 much better Claim to be the Tyramids o^ Memphis, than thefe 

 which, from all Antiquity, appear to be fo. 



Herodotus \ in his Defcription of Memphis, tells us th2Lt Memphis not 

 Menes caufed a Lake to be made on the N. and W. Sides of thelakrof 

 Memphis ; and founded the magnificent Temple of Vulcan : ^''"' 

 and again % that Myris, one of his SuccefTors, built the Portico 

 of Vulcan s Temple ; and caufed a Lake to be made with Tyra- 

 mids ; which was afterwards called the Lake of Myris. This, 



1 Vid. Trav. Not. i. p. 4i(J. 



2 Tres Pyramides qiis orbcm Teirarutn implevere fama, fane confplcus iindique anna- 



vigan:ibus. Ante iias cli: Sphinx vel magis miranda, quali fylveftic nuraen accolentium. 



Pl'in. I. 3(5. c. 12. 



3 Tov Mtita, «t«TOf ^dsxKe/uuTUTn. A?jJ^oi'> o; Jpesf eAsyov 70" joy (j$ij iinytp^aatu 7«v hl'iy.fiv. Tov jap 

 Ttrnttuov mvm liny mt^ -n> "o^Qf li -^fj-^uov (Otys AiCiinf 7»v ^ Mhw ctva^y, om 71 iKdiiv jncft'ss' &3 MifAipiof, 

 7ty la^ei /^my-Ceim iyiiava. ■oej^uWTKi tb juJ/j i^^oc ^esSpoy iin^xfavcu, -riy Ji Tma/xoy l^TMnu, 70 f/Kray 

 <nn i{iay ^iuy, iv Ji ;^ tZy \ssm Vli^iriay kyxav vt®" t« N«A« of a.Tn^yiA/jQ:' ^ew, ty pKaii^in (ujaAm sktoi, 

 9pe<cx3Du,V@' a.va, my st®", Ei ^s^p i^it^yiavi '(jt^Oi \ZiH[^)iyat TnTa/xiiS tou'th, xJvJhfQ)' m^n Mlf^pl KoLTaxJ^vS^- 

 rai ott' i'< eft" T7») Mh'Jtktm to lafara ■^afj^oi jiaaihii yi^mv ytyoviycu li amfyf/'tvciy, t oZit fxh iv avTj^ tsoxiy 

 KTimi -raJTuv, mvs vZy Mij^ps )M?<.ii'^. " B^ yi ^»i Mifj^pit h tz^ fiiva >} Alyu-^%. "B^a^iy Ji ahiis ■meto^'^su 

 hii^vw h 7\s TniTttjUK 'aj£i' liofixy n Koi taorifuv. To ^ap <BC9t t»v ticH auTif Ht^^Qy a-Tti^yd. TSto Ji toJ 

 'HjeJsK TB )£}y 'iSplimSttu h auT«, ioy fAya, ts kiu a,^m7mym7VL7oy . Eut. p. I40, 14I. Ed. Stcph. 



4 To^Tui' Ji Mwp/!' &rB^|ai3tu fjiviiuonwcf n 'Hfsufu to dgjf (Sojsxy ec/f/x«F 717J«^jmV« Kf^Trvhcuu, hi^iny 

 71 opu|*j Wufttfjujits 78 h Miryt oic.oe/bjuttiTiw, Id. p. 142. 



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