426 On Egypt- and the. Nile-. 



We find then three kings, named Sue as, or parrots, living, in a houfe ©r f s. 

 cage, or refting either on an. upright pole, or on one with a crofs-bar:. but whx> 

 they were, it is not my pre£nt object, nor am I now able, to investigate: I 

 will only obferve, that befides the king of Egypt ,, whom Pliny calls Sue his*, 

 or Sochis, the father of the C'uretes is named Soch us. by a Greek, lexicographer,, 

 and Socus by the author of the Dionyfiacks ; and that he was one of the 

 Cabires or Guv'eras, who (or at leaft fome of whom.) inliabited in. former ages; 

 the countries adjacent to the Nile.. 



The ruins of that wonderful building, called the Labyrinth, are 1HHt0.be' 

 feen, near the lake Maris, at a place, which the Arabs have named the Kafr,- 

 or palace, of Ka'ru'n, whom they fuppofe to have been the richefl of mor- 

 tals; as the ruins. of Me'dhi-su'ca-/'^« are in a district.., named the Be/ad, 

 or country, of the fame perfonage : the place kit-mentioned is, moil probably, 

 the labyrinth built, according to Da m © t e l e s in Fl i n y , by Motherude s, 

 a name derived, I imagine, from Med hi- rush i. The town of Mcta-camfa, 

 mentioned by Ptolemy as oppofite to Ffelchis above Syene, feems to have 

 had fome connection with Medhi-fuca y for cam fa and fuca were synonymous in 

 the old Egyptian: Herodotus at- leail informs us,, that cam/a meant a crc*- 

 eodile in that language j and it appears related to timfdh in? Arabick. Patyam 

 (for fo the long compound is often abbreviated)* feems to have been the laby- 

 rinth near Arjinoe, or Crocodilopolis, now Fay um, which word I fuppofe cor- 

 rupted from Patyam,. or P batyam, as- the Copts would have pronounced it', and 

 my Pandit inclines alfo to think, that the building might have been thus de- 

 nominated from large pieces of ftone or timber projecting, like patyas, before, 

 the windows, in order to fupport the frames of a halcony, which, as a new 

 invention, muft have attracted the notice of beholders. As to the lake of 

 M^ERis, I have already exhibited all, that I have yet found concerning iu 



