26 Of the Mofaic Pavement 



This Well might have been defigned, by the Artift, toreprefeiit 



' the Fons Solis or uf4in el Shims \ {Trai). p. 345. Not. 3.) the 



fame Fountain of Sweet-Water, for which Matarea, (as this 



Place is called at prefent,) continues to be remarkable. 



Bai>yion with After Heltopolis. is Babylon (2,) lb called from the Baby- 



it's Caftle. -^ -^ -i • -y- n- ■ n -i 



lonians^ who were the Founders or it. It is diitmgumied by 

 a round Tower or Caftle (e,) the Wi^^'i ep'j^v^v, as Straho calls it, 

 (Trav. p. 34.0. Not. 5-.) which was the lirft Part of the City that 

 was built. Babylon was formerly called Latopolis, [Trav.-^.T^^T^.) 

 as it is at prefent Kairo ; and, together with HeliopoUs, made 

 Part of the Land of Go/hen. 

 The City On the other fide of the River, towards Libya, is the 

 City Memphis (^,) diftinguifhed by feveral Coloffal Statues («,) 

 Hermes'^ or Mummies rather ; the Stantia bufto Corpora, 

 as Silius Italic t^s exprelfes it. Trav. p. 419. The particular 

 Figure of the Bafement (4,) upon which the City is built, 

 may very well be intended to reprefent the Banks and Ram- 

 parts, that were raifed on each Side of it, (p.4-1.) to fecure 

 it from the Inundations and Ravages of the Nile. 

 This Pave- Upon a Rcview therefore, of all thefe remarkable Circum- 

 Fidion,' butftances, fo applicable to Alexander' s Expedition, in particular, 

 fenution^of and to the ancient State of Egypt, in general ; there appears 

 ^^^^^' to be no fmall Proof and Evidence, that the Artift, whether 

 Greek or Roman, had made himfelf as well acquainted with 

 the Topography and the C/'ui/ Hiftory oi Egypt, as, from the 

 following Circumftances, he will appear to have been conver- 

 fant in the Natural. 

 oftheAni- jf yve besin then with the Animals; it mav be obferved of 



mals in ge- ° ' •' 



nerai. them, in general, that fome, being better known, as we may 

 imagine, than the reft, are therefore delineated withoutNames ; 

 others have their Names annexed to them in Greek Capitals. 

 Of thefe again, fome are well known; others, though their 

 Names are known, yet they themfelves have not been accu- 

 rately defcribed ; others again there are, whofe Names are 

 either unknown or elfe have a dubious Signification. 

 The croco- Amons[ thofe of the firft Clafs, the Precedency fliall be ffiveti 



d'tle or Lf- " . . 



wathan; to thc Crocodik ( H), which, from the fcaly Quality and Hard- 

 nefs of it's Coat, or, (in the Scripture Phrafe, Job 41. 17.) 

 ivhofe Scales fo ftick together that they cannot be fundred, is 



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