416 GnEgy^t and t he N i le 



Greeks afcribed id the Cyclopes. The walls of Sufa, about fixteen tniles in 

 circumference, were built by trie father of Memnon ; the citadel was cal- 

 led Memnonium, and the town, Memnonia; the palace is reprefented by 

 ,/Elian as amazingly fumptuous, and Stra'bo compares its ancidrit walls, 

 citadel, temples, and palace to thofe* of Babylon; a noble high road through 

 the country was attributed to Memn'gn ; one tomb nedix'Troy was fuppofed 

 to be his, and another in Syria ; the Ethiopians^ according toDioDORu's of 

 Sicily, claimed Memn on as their countryman, and a nation in Ethiopia were 

 ftyled Memnones ; on the borders of that country and of 'Egypt flood many 

 old palaces, called Meninonian ; part' of Thebes had the name of the 'Mem- 

 noniumi and an aftoniming building at Abydus was denominated Mem- 

 non's palace : Strabo fays, that many fuppofed IsMandes to have been 

 the fame with Memkon, and confequently they mull have thought the 

 Labyrinth a Memnonian ftru&ure (#). 



Divo'da'sa, prdnounced in the 'popular dialeds t) ido a 's, reigned over 

 Tome weflem dillricls of Ciffia-dwip "within, which extended from the mores 

 of the Mediterranean to the banks of the Indus -, and he became, we find, the 

 firft mortal king of Varanes : he feems to have been the Hercules D iod as, 

 mentioned by Eusebius, who flourished in Phenice y and, it is fuppofed, 

 about 1524 years before bur era; but, in my humble opinion, we cannot 

 place any Reliance on fuch chronological calculations ; which always err on 

 the fide of antiquity. The three feels of Jina, Mahiman, and Buddha, 

 whatever may be the difference between them, are all named Baud d has ; 

 and, as their chief law, in which, as the Brahmens affert, they make virtue 

 and religion confift, is Jo > preferve the lives of all animated beings, we cannot 





(a) Herod, V. 54. ffl. Xtil. 18. Diod. III. 69. Strab. XV. p. 728, XVII. p. 813. 



