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Hamilton, William Richard; Hayes, Charles [Ill.]
Remarks on several parts of Turkey (Band 1): Aegyptiaca, or some account of the antient and modern state of Egypt, as obtained in the years 1801, 1802 — [London], [1809]

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llipponon1 - - - - - - 30

Alyi.......-16

Thimonepsi - - - ___ 16
Aphrodito - - - - - 24

Scenas Maudrask - 20

Babylonia1 ------12

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Helium --- ____i2

Scenas Veteranorumn - - - 18

Vico Jtida»rum° - - - - 12

ThouP - - - - - - - 12

Hero ---_ _-_-24

Serapiu -- - - - - - 18

Clismo -- - ____5o

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Route from Serapia to Pelusium.

M.r. 36

Thaubasiol ------ 8 Magdolo5 --____. 12

Siler --------28 Pelusio --__ _ _ _ 12

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1 Supposed to have been the station for the cavalry posted on the Thebaic frontier.

k A military post and an episcopal see under the Lower Empire.

1 Hodie Old Cairo.

™ Hodie Matarieh—where is the celebrated well which is called by the Arab writers Am
Es shems, or Fountain of the Sun.

n Supposed to be the station at El-Hank, near the Birket El Hadgis, where the Mecca caravans
encamp for a time previous to their departure for the city of the Prophet. There appears, how ever,
an inaccuracy in the statement of the distance, which is not above eight or ten miles.

0 Called in the Notitia Imperii, Castra Judaeorum, and now Tell El-Judi; the supposed site of
the Jewish temple built by Onias on a spot of ground within the nome of Heliopolis, granted
for that purpose by Ptolemy I'hilometor. Here likewise the stated distance exceeds the real di-
stance by five or six miles.

f Placed by D'Anville at the entrance of a narrow pass through the mountains on the way from
Cairo to Suez, aVid supposed by him to be the same as mentioned by Herodotus under the name
Eyro; 7roAi;. It is now called El-Bab, or the Gate, which same name is given to another Thou
in Upper Egypt.

*) A military station mentioned by the writers of the Lower Empire, as Castrura Thaubaston,
now Habaset.

' Hodie Salahhieh. The bishop of Sile was present at the general council held at Ephesus in
the fifth century.

' The name of this place, which occurs in the tenth verse of the xxixth chapter of E/.ekiel, an 1

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