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APPENDIX.
In the Delta, part of the nomes
They extend from 29° 16' 56" to 30° 2' 30" north latitude,
and occupy a space measuring, from north to south, fifty-three
English miles. The map was laid down from a trigonometrical
survey, carefully taken in 1839. It contains the sites of the
Pyramids and the adjacent country, including part of the Delta,
for, notwithstanding the supposed origin of its name, that
province appears, according to Ptolemy, to have extended as far
south as the Pyramids of Gizeh. Ahou Fedeh also places the
division between the upper and lower country at Fostat, or Old
Cairo. Parts of five nomes, and the whole of another, are
therefore inserted as follows : —
J Latopolitis.
[Heliopolitis.
The nome - Mcmphitis.
(Aphroditopolitis.
Heracleopolitis.
Crocodilopolitis.
The situations of antient towns, as far as they can be ascer-
tained, are also marked.
The account that Menes had diverted the river into its present
course on the eastern side of the valley has been disputed by
many commentators ; but the antient channel has been shewn
by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, and may be traced in the low
ground, between Kafr el Lyal and the Bahr Yousef, to the north-
ward of Barnasht. Indeed, to the southward of this place, the
Bahr Yousef evidently flows in an excavation ; but to the north-
ward of it, between the site of Memphis and the Libyan Desert,
it apparently occupies the antient bed of the river, which, accord-
ing to Herodotus, was used by vessels in their passage from
Naucratis to Memphis.1
From the Bahr Yousef another canal of the same name
supplies the Faioum with water. It is said to have been the
work of one of the earliest kings, and is the source of the fertility
of that district.
NOMOS LATOPOLITIS.
The site of Latopolis has not been discovered. According
to Ptolemy, it was near the river, and, by the " Itinerary of
Antoninus," was twenty miles distant from Memphis ; it may
1 A branch from this canal probably passed under the Pyramids of Gizeh
into the Bahr Bela Mar.
APPENDIX.
In the Delta, part of the nomes
They extend from 29° 16' 56" to 30° 2' 30" north latitude,
and occupy a space measuring, from north to south, fifty-three
English miles. The map was laid down from a trigonometrical
survey, carefully taken in 1839. It contains the sites of the
Pyramids and the adjacent country, including part of the Delta,
for, notwithstanding the supposed origin of its name, that
province appears, according to Ptolemy, to have extended as far
south as the Pyramids of Gizeh. Ahou Fedeh also places the
division between the upper and lower country at Fostat, or Old
Cairo. Parts of five nomes, and the whole of another, are
therefore inserted as follows : —
J Latopolitis.
[Heliopolitis.
The nome - Mcmphitis.
(Aphroditopolitis.
Heracleopolitis.
Crocodilopolitis.
The situations of antient towns, as far as they can be ascer-
tained, are also marked.
The account that Menes had diverted the river into its present
course on the eastern side of the valley has been disputed by
many commentators ; but the antient channel has been shewn
by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, and may be traced in the low
ground, between Kafr el Lyal and the Bahr Yousef, to the north-
ward of Barnasht. Indeed, to the southward of this place, the
Bahr Yousef evidently flows in an excavation ; but to the north-
ward of it, between the site of Memphis and the Libyan Desert,
it apparently occupies the antient bed of the river, which, accord-
ing to Herodotus, was used by vessels in their passage from
Naucratis to Memphis.1
From the Bahr Yousef another canal of the same name
supplies the Faioum with water. It is said to have been the
work of one of the earliest kings, and is the source of the fertility
of that district.
NOMOS LATOPOLITIS.
The site of Latopolis has not been discovered. According
to Ptolemy, it was near the river, and, by the " Itinerary of
Antoninus," was twenty miles distant from Memphis ; it may
1 A branch from this canal probably passed under the Pyramids of Gizeh
into the Bahr Bela Mar.