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rfe ten days Eaflward from Augela, and nine days from the Me- 
diterranean; which carries Sant-rie farther from the fea-coaft, 
than Strabo allows to the Temple ; but accords with Ptolemy. 
Savary, vol. ii. Lett. vIII.) quotes Abulfeda, to fhew that the 
Oajes were only three days journey Weft of the Nile ; and 
Ptolemy places the largeft cf them, named El Wah by the 
Arabs, under the parallel of 2 7 °. I fufpe£t ALulfeda is v/rong ; 
and that Ptolemy is nearer the truth, when he a 'lows one hun- 
dred and twenty-three miles, (or one hundred and five correded) 
for the diftance of the Great Oalis from Ptolemais on the Nile, 
in the direction of Weft, fomething Southwardly. Then Edrift 
allows only nine days between Sant-rie and El Wah ; whereas 
the fcite of the Temple of Jupiter Ammon, by the above au- 
thorities, fliould be, according to my apprehenfion, at leaft 
twelve days from El Wah. But we are young in African Geo- 
graphy : and as I have faid before, the data furniftied by Ar- 
rian, Strabo, and PHny, may fatisfy us. 
The defcription of the Oafis (or Ifland in the midft of the 
fandy Defart) which contained the Temple, is pretty generally 
known : but for the fake of thofe who may not recollect the par- 
ticulars, I have extraded the following account. 
Arrian 
