xvtii PREFACE TO SECOND SECTION' 
Mountain of ^Irahia. In this mountain are the 
quarries whence the stones were taken for 
building- the Pyramids of Memphis." The moun- 
tain, mentioned by Herodotus in this passage, is 
evidently Mokatam : and Letopolis, Latopolhy 
or Lhopolis, which Bryant thinks ^ derived its 
name from those quarries (q. d. AieonoAIS), 
being- near to it, is mentioned with Heliopolis by 
other writers. We may now consider the cir- 
cumstances of association under which Helio- 
polis is noticed by Straho^: — " These places (PA«- 
citsa and Phithom) are near to the vertex of the 
Delta : there is the city of Biihastus and the 
Bubastic Nome; and beyond this^ the Nome of 
Heliopolis, where the City of the Sun is situate.' 
After describing the temple and the antiquities 
of the city, he continues by giving a description 
of the Nile beyond the Delta; speaking of 
Libya as being upon his right, and Arabia upon 
his left. Then he adds this remarkable observa- 
tion: "Wherefore the Heliopolitan Nome is in 
Arabia^ After this, he introduces the Lito- 
(1) See Observ. upon Ant. Hist. p. 123. Note 5. Land. 1767- 
(2) QuToi 01 t'ottoi vXriffia^ouiri rri xtpvfH tou A'iK<7a. Autov Si xai » Bou- 
(iccffros ■XoXi;, kcci a Bov^ao'riTtis vo/ic;' xai uv\f ahroZ o 'HXiD^oXiTti; vifiii- 
' i'.)ira,u6tt. S' itrrit h rou n^iov mkis, x. t. X. Slrab'jti, Gcog. lib. xvii. 
l>. 1141. edit. Oxoii. 1807. 
{3) 'rxifctuToZ. Sic MS. Par. Med. iv. Vid. p. 11 11. cd. Qjcon. 
