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Arrian fays, that it is not more tlian forty ftadia in extent ; 
Diodorus fifty; fay, fix or feven miles. All accounts agree, that 
it has one or more fountains of water ; and that it was planted 
with divers kinds of fruit trees : Arrian particularly notices the 
Palm and Olive. What appeared to be a very great natural cu- 
riohty, was, a fountain, which according to Arrian, (whofe ac- 
count is the leaft extravagant) varied in its temperature, in a 
greater degree than any other that has been heard of : that is, it 
was very warm, or hot, at midnight; very cold in the heat of 
the day, I prefume thefe phasnomena will not appear very 
extraordinary to thofe, who confider, that a deep-feated fpring 
will preferve a mean degree of temperature at all feafons : fo 
that, in effect, it was the atmofphere that underwent the change ; 
and with it, the bodies of thofe who made the obfervations. 
The Temple was furrounded by a triple wall, forming three 
dilHnQ: quarters or divifions ; one of which was appropriated to 
the ufe of the Monarch. In the time of Herodotus, when pro- 
bably the Temple was in its glory, the dominions of the Ammo- 
nites reached within ten days journey of the City of Thebes: 
the people were a colony of Egyptians and Ethiopians, and fpoke 
a mixed language, (Herod. Book III.) Ammon, or Hammon, 
was the Eg^'ptian name of Jupiter ; and the image of the god, 
fimilar 
