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placed by the side of this, is the well-known 
Cistern which was formerly called the " Lovers 
Fountain," and stood near to the Castle of Kallat 
el Kabsh in Grand Cairo \ Other remains of the 
same nature, less perfectly preserved, came 
from Upper Egypt; whence they were brought 
by the French to Alexandria. 
It had been somewhat loosely affirmed, that 
the Egyptians always buried their dead in an 
upright posture : and the author, noticing this 
egregious error in his " Testimonies concerning 
Alexander s Toinb,^' maintained that the opinion 
could neither be reconciled with the appearance 
of the To7nbs of the Kings of Thebes, nor with 
the evidence afforded by the principal Pyramid 
at Memphis*. Since that publication appeared, 
Mr. Hamilton has incontestably proved that the 
affirmation was loose indeed, for that the Egyp- 
tians never buried their dead in an upright pos- 
ture*. A writer, however, in one of the Monthly 
(3) Sec a correct representation of it, as engraved in Bowyers 
Work, entitled Sir Ruhert AiitsUe's Collection of Views in Egypt, ^c. 
from Drawings by Luigi Mayer. 
(4) Toxsi\iol Alexander. Introd. p. 7- Crtm&. 1805. 
(5) See p. 227, Note (7), of this Volume. See also Hamilton's 
^gyptiaca, p. 317. Land. 1809. " It was evident," says Mr. Hamil- 
ton, " that the bodies had been placed horizontally, not upright: 
consequently the passage of Silius Italicus, quoted to assist the 
contrary 
