128 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
Odober 4th, 1792. Continued our navigation up the 
Nile. 
6th. Paffed Kaw or Gaw-es-Sherki, the Antseopolis of anti- 
quity, where remains part of a curious temple, confifting of fe- 
veral columns, built of large ftones, as ufual in Egyptian 
remains, and covered with emblematical figures, interfperfed 
with hieroglyphics. Some of the ftones in the temple are from 
eighteen to twenty feet in length. At How on the Weft, fup- 
pofed the ancient Diofpolis, obferved no ruins. 
8th. Came to Achmim, the antient Chemmis or Panopolis, 
on the Eaft fide of the Nile, now a pleafant village or fmall 
town. Heliodorus, in his celebrated romanc-e, often mentions 
Chemmis, and fpeaks of a difpute between its people and thofe 
of Befta or Antinoe. Many cities intervened between BeUa 
and Chemmis, the latter of which he feems to place not far 
from a lake near the Heracleotic mouth of the Nile. The 
whole geography of that ingenious prelate forms one puzzle, 
though he was a native of the neighbouring country of 
Syria. 
At Achmim fome fragments of columns ftill remain, and In 
the adjacent mountain are caverns refembling thofe at Affiut. 
The hieroglyphics have been painted in diftemperature, as ufual 
with all thofe executed on the fmooth furface of frec-ftone. A 
mummy had been recently taken out of the principal room, as 
appeared from the remains of prepared cloth, and human 
bones. 
