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We mentioned, in the firft fection, the two Jwdlamuchis, near one of 

 which the father of Cape'y ana's relided: the JwdBinucbi, now Cor- 

 cilr r which was alfo named Andy dfd-devi-jVhdn, was at no great diftance 

 from the "Tigris, and feems as we intimated before, to be the m 'Awing left of 

 Strabo fa): I fuppofe it to be the original Ur of the Chaldeans; original 

 I fay, becaufe there were feveral places of that name, both in Syria and 

 Chddea, where fuperftitious honours were paid to fire, either natural or ar- 

 tificial. The epithet great is applied in lome Purdnas to this Jwdldmuclu, 

 and in others to that near Baku; to this, perhaps, by way of eminence in 

 fanctity, and to that, becaufe its flames were more extended and fiercer. 

 Laya-Jt'hdn, or Layavari, where Visvacse'na elofed his days near the 

 Cdlt, we have alfo mentioned in a preceding fseYtoHj and it was, probably,, 

 the Lete of Josephus^J, or fome place very near it: STEPHANusof By- 

 zantium calls it Letopolis, or Latopolis, and fays, £hat it was a iuburb of 

 Memphis near the pyramids (c). Ghora-ffhdn is yet unknown: k could not 

 have been very far from Vifwa-cirli-pura; but univerfal fame is applicable 

 to fo many cities of Egypt, that we cannot appropriate it to any one of 

 them. Of Tdpas and Tapovana we have already fpoken ; and Ch'hdditd, 

 or PeriracJJjitd, mufb have been in thofe foreits of Ihebais : the tree 

 of Racjhita was, pofiibly, the Holy Sycomore mentioned by Pliny, 

 'fifty-four miles above Syefie on the banks of the NilefdJ. The fea of 

 Amagna was, molt probably, the Afphalnte lake, the waters of which had, 

 and, fome affert, have to this day, fo buoyant a quality, that nothing could 

 fink in them : Maundrel takes particular notice of 1 1 is wonderful pro* 

 perty. That lake was not far from Uddhdra-ffkan, or Joppe, where An- 

 dromeda was chained to a rock : Pliny fays, that the place of her confinc- 



(«) B. 17. p. 738. (b) B. a. (c) B. 17. ^) fhn* L. 6, C. t 9 . 



