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fore, to settle the topography of places whose cii .*.:*. 
remains are, perhaps, at this time, under water? '. « 
The changes which the coast has undergone 
will render it no very easy task; and, certainly, 
it has not yet been determined. Whenever we 
undertook the inquiry, our investigation proved 
fruitless ; and it is therefore better to state our 
uncertainty, than to aim at illustration, where 
there is so little chance of precision. Perhaps 
the difficulty may have been increased by con- 
sidering Abouhir as the antient Cannpus\ Mis- 
led by this opinion, the traveller is withdrawn 
from the line of observation marked out by 
Strabo. His route from Alexandria to Canopus, 
instead of being in the direction oi Aboukir, may 
possibly have been along the course of the 
Alexandrian Canal; and if this be the AinPTH on 
which the Canopican festivities were annually 
celebrated % we must look for Canopus, and also 
for Heraclium\ rather in the direction of Utko 
(3) See Vol. in. of these Travels, Chap. I. p. 3- Oclaio edit. 
(4) 'Ev %t^tZ %\ TJij Kasvsu.G/xnj 5ryX>j; \\tovrt, h ^tufu% Iffrit h sti Kdvafior 
ruvd'^'rouffa. rrt Xifiv7i. " E Canoplcu portii exeunti ad dcxtram est fossa, 
quie lacui jimgitur, ct Canopum fert." Slrnb. Geog. lib. xwii. p. 1155. 
Oxon. 1807. 
(5) liira d\ Ton Kdvufiov Xtfrt r» 'HpcixXiiov ro 'llpanXuv; e vfv hpov' uta *•» 
K«w/5/«o» arofjia., xai jj eipx,h rou LiXret. " Post Canopum est Heraciium, 
quod Herculis templum habet. Inde est Canopi'cum ostiuvi, et ipsius 
IJf'la 'nVn'nmt.^' Strnlon. Hcog. lib. wU. p. 1136. Oion. 1907, 
