CHAP 
IV. 
\iiS HELIOPOLIS. 
dissertation upon this obelisk, aiul, in his en- 
deavour to explain its symbols in detail, has 
broiipht together all that his vast erudition en- 
abled him to communicate; although it must be 
evident, since the discovery of a Greek transla- 
tion of hieroglyphics upon the Rosetta Stone, that 
the interpretation proposed by him, of these 
characters, cannot accord with their real signi- 
fication. 
With the description of this obelisk the author 
is compelled to terminate his very limited ob- 
servations concerning Heliopolis: for such is the 
solitary remnant of a city and of an University 
v.here Herodotus was instructed in the wisdom 
of the Egyptians; and vvhere, eighteen hundred 
years ago, the schools^ of Plalo and oi Eudoxus 
were shewn to Roman travellers ; as, in some 
future age, the places where a Locke and a 
Newton held their disputations may be pointed 
out among the mouldering edifices of Oxford and 
of Cambridge. That other monuments, equally 
entitled to consideration, may possibly exist 
(1) AIATPIBA! (Hciiiitiir rhilosophorum congressus ac disputationes, 
cjiirc Pint. S;aTj;/3a/ rr-cii \oyiu;. Item locus, in quo har^ifiot/tri vn^i ri, 
A!ATP!BH dicitur. Sic \i'g. Strab. 'F.ku 5?» tci'iKiutro c" rs Tut U^iuy »T«?< 
jtar XWoiruvt; xp) E;'Jr^;y "oiarQipizi. " Osti'iidcbantur ergo ibi sacerdotuin 
«dcs, ac domicilia in quibus Eudoxus et Piato egerant." Slrabon. Geog. 
lib. xvii. ,'.)>». 11. ;'. IH". Ed. Oxon. 
