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The more populous of the towns feem to be thofe which 
follow : 
Eqft of the Nile. 
1. Achmim. 
2. Ghenne. 
3. Kous. 
4. AlTuan. 
Wejl of the Nile, 
1. Benefoef. 
2. Minie ; city. 
3. Melawi. 
4. Monfalut ; city. 
5. Affiut ; city. 
6. Tachta. 
7. Girgi ; city, 
8. Bardis. 
9. Bagjura. 
10. Nakade. 
11. Erment. 
12. Ifna ; city. 
In the mountain above Affiut are feveral remarkable caverns, 
very fpacious, and adorned with hieroglyphics and emble- 
matic figures. Some appear to have been fepulchral, as they 
contain fragments of the jars in which were depofited, not 
only the Ibis, but cats, dogs, and other animals, whether confi- 
dered as facred, or flain to attend their mafter or miftrefs in the 
other world. In one of thefe caverns, befides the entrance, 
there are three chambers hewn in the rock, which is free-ftone, 
one fixty feet by thirty, another fixty by twenty-fix, a third 
twenty-fix by twenty-five. Farther up the mountain there are 
caverns yet more fpacious than thefe. 
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