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the first place, be supposed, that their division 

 has a determinate relation to a certain state of 



first band, in the angle which the feet of the large figure 

 form with the body, and before the space in which the Lion 

 marches, which is a little behind. At the other end of this 

 same band, the Capricorn is very near the bottom, or at the 

 arms of the large figure ; and, upon the left band, the Aqua- 

 rius is separated to some distance from it. The Capricorn, 

 however, is not repeated like the Crab. The division of this 

 zodiac, from the entrance, is therefore made between the 

 Lion and the Cancer; or if it be thought that the repetition 

 of the Scarabseus marks a division of the sign, it takes place 

 in the Crab itself ; but that of the lower end is made be- 

 tween the Capricorn and Aquarius. 



In one of the inner halls of the same temple, there was 

 a circular planisphere inscribed in a square, the same that 

 has been brought to Paris by M. Lelorrain, and which is to 

 be seen at the Royal Library. In it, also, the signs of the 

 zodiac are observed among many other figures which ap- 

 pear to represent constellations. (Great Work on Egypt, 

 Antiq. vol. iv. pi. 21.) The Lion corresponds to one of the 

 diagonals of the square ; the Virgin, which follows, corres- 

 ponds to a perpendicular line which is directed toward the 

 east ; the other signs march in the usual order, till we come 

 to the Crab, which, in place of completing the chain, by 

 corresponding to the level of the Lion, is placed above it, 

 nearer the centre of the circle, in such a manner that the 

 signs are upon a somewhat spiral line. This Crab, or ra- 

 ther Scarabaeus, marches in a contrary direction to the other 

 signs. The Twins correspond to the north, the Sagittaryto 

 the south, and the Fishes to the east, but not very exactly. 

 At the eastern side of this planisphere is a large figure of a 



