288 FROM GRAND CAIRO TO ROSETTA. 
CHAP, by a friend of our party, who visited the Pyra- 
mids with us, and who was engaged in a voyage 
down the Nile at the time we were employed 
among the Ruins of Sais '. The water of the 
river, in consequence of the inundation, had 
obtained access to this inclosure, so as to form 
a small lake around the conical heap of ruins 
which stood in the middle of the area. Per- 
haps it was thus admitted in antient times ; as 
the vast rampart of the inclosure, both in its 
bulk and elevation, render it well calculated to 
contain water. The description given by Hero- 
dotus of a sepulchre'^ at Sais is so applicable to 
the general appearance of this place, that per- 
haps the evidence it affords may be deemed 
almost conclusive as to the locality of the city. 
(1) ff^iiliam Hamilton, Esq. F. A. S. one of his Majesty's Under- 
Secretaries of State, autliur of '* Remarks on several Parts of Turkey ," 
of which only Part the First, under the title of ^^gyptiaca, has yet 
appeared. Jt is to be hoped that Mr. Hamilton's other important 
avocations will not prevent the continuation of this valuable work. 
For his account of the situatian of San, and the present appearance 
of its ruins, see JEgi/jHiaca, /?. 382. Lotid. I8O9. A Map of their 
Topography, and a Plan of the Ruins, as they were discovered by the 
French, are given in Plate xvii of Denori's large work. In the same 
Plate may be seen also a Plan of an Inclosure and Ruins near JBeibeth, 
wliich exactly represents the present appearance of the inclosure at 
Sais. 
(2) Herodot. Euterpe, c. 170. Herndottis says he was not permitted 
to name the person to whom this sepulchre belonged. 
