OAS 
and with its the ged . — who made bed obfervations. 
e fountain of the Sun. ‘The 
feven days’ journey from Aug late 2 
Cairo, and thefe diftances a “Eo ationed a the authority ’ 
Herodotus 
count of the dates, and on the road from Thebes t 
clufive; and the pofition of Parzton 
in Ptolemy, and is known to moderns under the name 
f Al Bareton. Arian fays fae, that Alexander 
ftruck inland from elgrenet ~~ — the defert ; 
ut he does not fay t by from 
the fea-coaft. This is fupplied by Strabo (lib. 17-), who 
i llowing ack to pro- 
erodotus’s ten days 
places the temple in latitude 29° raction, 
an outh-wefterly direction m tonium. 
Pliny ede that the temple is ae (Roman) miles from 
Cyrene ; that is, twice as far Paretonium om 
Alexandria ; and this agrees with the former pofition. 
Ptolemy places . - 195 a Sie Pll miles fees Pare- 
tonium, or by correétion 166; and from Cyrene 340. The 
t 
on the a o 
cluded that the fcite of the caplet of Jupiter Ammon fhould 
be at oe twelve days from El-wa 
mple was furrounded by a triple wall, forming three 
one of which was appropriated to the ule 
e 
Ammonites reached within 10 days ourney of the city of 
e people were a colony of Egyptians or Ethio- 
uage. mmon, or Ham- 
a the image of 
ea ‘mixed lan 
m 
this Oafis; and is probably no more than fix days’ journey on 
the N.E. of it: the fpring, together with the ruins of the 
temple and the triple wall, might afcertain to a curious in- 
quirer the precife {pot. 
Under the fovereigns of the lower empire, the Oafis be- 
ame a place xile : and both Seétaries and Catholics 
were fent thither Pee Neftorius and Athanafius were 
exiled thither, hefe habitations, become famous on ac- 
count of the banifhment of the moft learned ee of 
ithe lower empire, were little known by the Perfians. Cam- 
byes, after, ravaging Egyp ya Suensy to carry off the fpoils 
of the temple of, Jup he troops he fent 
again he oomaan ‘eft Thebes and arrived at the city of 
OAT 
Oafis, fays oo ica by the Samians of the tribe 
of Efcrionia. ‘T’his country, diftant feven days’ march front 
i ee of Egypt, | is called by the Greeks, . «¢ the Ifle of 
the .”? It is reported that the army reached their place 
of deftination, but the Ammonians alone knew what be 
of it, for it has never fince been heard of. It is ‘faid alfo, 
that being on their march towards fe temple of Jupiter, and 
ne got half way, it was {wallowed by torrents of burn- 
ing fand blown up by the foutherly wind. 
he Oa of He a fs little known by the aes 
it 
he moft Fequnted of the 
road of ae caravans of Abyflinia, con- 
be 
ins a great naires of oe ‘ The of Girgé 
fends a aac there as governor, and to colle¢t a tribute. 
he rapher of Nubia deferbes i country © the E 
louah, fiteated to the weft of Affouan, as having’been former- 
ly much a ai At prefent, ie "hay ys, it t has no 
ants. eet with abundant fringe there, and fruit 
trees, ik cities buried under ruin 
OASITES Nomos, nomes of ere there are two in 
Egypt, placed by’ =) near the lake Meeris 
OAST. See Oo. 
OASY. See Oazy 
OAT, AVENA, in Bo tany. See AVE 
ee in Agriculture, the name of a well-known fpecies of 
gra 
Faricte of the kingdom. But the moft common forts cul- 
tivated in England, are the white, the black, the Fea 
red oat ; the blue, the Poland, the Friezland or tch, 
Siberian or Tartarian oat, the Effex foort fmall, the 2 Churches $ 
oat, and the © potatoe oat. 
The white is met with in the fouthern parts of the ifland ; 
it makes the whiteft meal, but is c iefly cultivated where 
the inhabitants live much upon 
The dlack is more generally cltvated in the northern parts 
of England, and is efteemed a hearty food for horfes. It 
bears a wet harvelt well, and ane on the wetteft foils 
"The blue or blea oat is faid to have been fown about Kigh- 
ley in Yorkfhire. It is probably the fame with what is cul- 
pla in Lincolnfhire, &c. under the name of Scotch 
a 
vy Ihe Poland oat has a fhort plump grain, but the thick- 
ne{s of the fkin feems to have brought it into difrepute among 
farmers. The e grains are moftly fingle, it has no awn, au 
the ftraw is fhort.. It anfwers beft on dry warm ‘foils 21 nd 
ee 
e Friezland or Dutch oat affords more flraw, and is 
thinner ficinned than the above kind. 
which is confider ed by 
& {pecie an flower frequently 
contains thite perfect aoe: meyer lefs than two, witha 
pedicelled 
