EGYPT> AND SYRIA. 167 
CHAP. XIIL 
JOURNEY TO FEIUM. 
Tamieh — Canals — Feium — Rofes — Lake M^ris — Oajis Parva — 
Pyramids — of Hawara — of Dafhur — of Sakarra — of Ji%e^ 
or the great Pyramids — Antie?it Memphis — Egyptian Ca- 
pitals, 
O N the 28th of December 1792 left Kahirato viflt Feium, a 
city diftant about fixty miles to the South-weft. At Moknan 
procured from the Shech a letter to one of his officers, refiding 
at Bedis, another village further on to the Southward, com- 
manding him to accompany me to Feium. Proceeded through 
a grove of large date trees, which are watered from feveral 
cifterns, all of them fupplied from the Nile, during its in- 
creafe. 
Between Bedis and Tamieh pafTed a natural opening, in the 
chain which conftitutes the Weftern wall of Egypt. A fmall 
canal runs through Tamieh*, and here the country again 
* Pococke, vol. i. p. 56. conceives this place to have received its name from 
the Greek word T«jWi£»«, there having been a kind of lock there to reftrain or let 
loofe the vi^ater in the canal which pafTes by it. 
aiTumes 
