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ME.  HOENEE  ON  THE  AELTJVIAL  LAND  OF  EGYPT. 
West. 
Local  Names  of  the  Fits. 
1 R. 
Ramesses  II. 
9. 
Shimbab,  No.  3. 
1. 
Pit  XIII.* 
10. 
Erben’s. 
2. 
Omar’s. 
11. 
Mekias  il  Rod. 
3. 
The  Palms. 
12. 
Bedreshin-j-,  No.  1. 
4. 
Csesareum  or  Serb. 
13. 
Bedreshin,  No.  2. 
5. 
Tel  Moukalid. 
14. 
Bedreshin,  No.  3. 
6. 
Three  Colossi. 
15. 
Bedreshin,  No.  4. 
7. 
Shimbab,  No.  1. 
16. 
Bedreshin,  No.  5. 
8. 
Shimbab,  No.  2. 
17. 
Bedreshin,  No.  6. 
Distances  from  the  Pits  E,  m yards. 
Pits, 
No. 
1. 
25  East 
6 South 
2. 
21  West 
45  South 
3. 
24  East 
52  North 
4. 
80  West 
260  North 
5, 
151  West 
326  North 
6. 
35  East 
354  North 
7. 
115  East 
565  South 
8. 
198  East 
854  South 
9. 
291  East 
1250  South 
Pits, 
p p 
779  East 
40  North 
11. 
758  East 
627  North 
12. 
875  East 
595  North 
13. 
983  East 
537  North 
14. 
1150  East 
491  North 
15. 
1325  East 
490  North 
16. 
1470  East 
404  North 
17. 
1690  East 
388  North 
The  sections  of  these  pits  will  be  seen  in  Plate  II.  The  alluvial  soil  being  divi- 
sible into  two  principal  kinds,  in  the  one  of  which  argillaceous  earth  enters  lai’gely 
into  the  composition,  while  the  other  consists  mainly,  or  altogether,  of  quartzose  sand, 
* Of  the  line  of  pits  across  the  valley  in  the  mound  district  of  Memphis,  described  hereafter, 
t Nos.  1 to  5 of  the  Bedreshin  Pits  were  in  the  Summer  Eoad,  north  of  the  cross  embankment  leading 
from  Metrahenny  to  Bedreshin.  No.  6 is  west  of  the  Bedreshin  burial-grounds. 
