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GEOGRAPHICAL 
The fclte of the antlent Temple of Jupiter Ammon, was a 
few days journey (perhaps four or five) inland from the plain 
of Gegabib, fo often mentioned. I think I may venture to fay 
this on the authority of Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, and Arrian ; 
from each of whon>, fome particulars may be colle6;ed refpefting 
its fituation. Firft, Herodotus fays, ( Book IV.) that the Tem- 
ple is fituated ten days from JEgila ; (frequented by the Nafa- 
mones on account of the dates) and on the road from Thebes 
to ^gila. Next, Arrian fays, on the authority of Ariftobulus, 
that Alexander went to it, from the fcite of his new city of 
Alexandria, along the fea coalls of Egypt and Marmarica, to 
Varaetonium : which latter was fituated, according to the fame 
authority, fixteen hundred fladia from Alexandria. Pliny gives 
it at two hundred Roman miles (Book V.) Thefe accounts are 
perfectly conclufive ; and the pofition of Faraetonium, is alfo 
very clear in Ptolemy ; and is moreover known to the Moderns 
under the name of u4l Bareton : fo that no difficulty can arife 
here. Arrian fays farther, that Alexander fi:ruck inland from 
Paraetonium^ and entered the Defart : but he does not fay how 
far the Temple lay from the fea coaft. This is fupplied by Stra- 
bo,, (Book XXVII.) who gives the diftance at thirteen hundred 
fiadia. Allowing thefe to produce one hundred and thirty, or 
one hundred and forty miles ; and taking Herodotus's ten days 
from 
