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LAKE MENZALEH—TANIS—DAPHN&.
western horizon of Lake Menzaleh, can
be seen the mounds which mark the
sites of long-lost cities, now drowned
out by the neglect of ancient canals or
the banks that may have confined the
river to its channel. Most of the wide
expanse of Lake Menzaleh, now covered
frequently with picturesque fleets of
fishing-boats, and teeming with aquatic
fowl of many species, was a wide stretch
of cultivated land, intersected by nume-
rous canals, and full of towns and
villages. (Some day, when reservoirs
and barrages have doubled the wealth
of the banks of the upper Nile valley,
British engineers may teach the Egyp-
tians how to reclaim Lake Menzaleh,
as is being done with Aboukir Bay on
the other side of Alexandria.) M. .
' ANCH'AI SI I•./ CANAL t.SI,l> B\ SETI I.,
Mariette was fortunate in discovering As depicted on the walls of Karnak (Thebes).
in some of those far-off mounds the ancient site of Zoan * of the Bible,
the Tanis of the Greeks.! They were afterwards again excavated by Professor
Pétrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund. Later discoveries of Tahpanhes
or Tehaphnehes,í the Greek Daphnie, in the Delta, not far from the lake,
were also published. I am permitted to give some reproductions from this
excellent society's volumes which may be interesting ; but ordinary travellers
are not likely to visit the locality, which is rather a pestilential one. The
enormous ruins show what a vast city stood here, and the terrible destruction
that has fallen upon it is difficult to understand. The prophet Jeremiah was
a prisoner here, and Petrie's discoveries included the finding of " a great
* Zoan, on the Tanitic mouth of the Nile, was about 30 miles distant from Sin or Pelusium,
at the W. end of a rich plain of pasturable marshes, watered by four branches of the Nile,
which, perhaps, was called the " Field of Zoan " (Ps. 78. 12, 13}.
t Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode have recently issued an admirable illustrated volume by
the Rev. C. J. Ball, Light from the East, which adds much information to the Biblical mention
of this wonderful old city.
% Tahpanhes in Jeremiah {43. 7-9), Tehaphnehes in Ezekiel {30. 18}; the Pelusian Daphnœ
of Herodotus (ii. 30, 154 ; see 107), who describes it as the Eastern frontier fortress of Psammiti-
chus. the founder of the xxvith dynasty of Pharaohs, who garrisoned it with Greek merce-
naries encamped on each side of the Pelusiac mouth of the Nile
western horizon of Lake Menzaleh, can
be seen the mounds which mark the
sites of long-lost cities, now drowned
out by the neglect of ancient canals or
the banks that may have confined the
river to its channel. Most of the wide
expanse of Lake Menzaleh, now covered
frequently with picturesque fleets of
fishing-boats, and teeming with aquatic
fowl of many species, was a wide stretch
of cultivated land, intersected by nume-
rous canals, and full of towns and
villages. (Some day, when reservoirs
and barrages have doubled the wealth
of the banks of the upper Nile valley,
British engineers may teach the Egyp-
tians how to reclaim Lake Menzaleh,
as is being done with Aboukir Bay on
the other side of Alexandria.) M. .
' ANCH'AI SI I•./ CANAL t.SI,l> B\ SETI I.,
Mariette was fortunate in discovering As depicted on the walls of Karnak (Thebes).
in some of those far-off mounds the ancient site of Zoan * of the Bible,
the Tanis of the Greeks.! They were afterwards again excavated by Professor
Pétrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund. Later discoveries of Tahpanhes
or Tehaphnehes,í the Greek Daphnie, in the Delta, not far from the lake,
were also published. I am permitted to give some reproductions from this
excellent society's volumes which may be interesting ; but ordinary travellers
are not likely to visit the locality, which is rather a pestilential one. The
enormous ruins show what a vast city stood here, and the terrible destruction
that has fallen upon it is difficult to understand. The prophet Jeremiah was
a prisoner here, and Petrie's discoveries included the finding of " a great
* Zoan, on the Tanitic mouth of the Nile, was about 30 miles distant from Sin or Pelusium,
at the W. end of a rich plain of pasturable marshes, watered by four branches of the Nile,
which, perhaps, was called the " Field of Zoan " (Ps. 78. 12, 13}.
t Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode have recently issued an admirable illustrated volume by
the Rev. C. J. Ball, Light from the East, which adds much information to the Biblical mention
of this wonderful old city.
% Tahpanhes in Jeremiah {43. 7-9), Tehaphnehes in Ezekiel {30. 18}; the Pelusian Daphnœ
of Herodotus (ii. 30, 154 ; see 107), who describes it as the Eastern frontier fortress of Psammiti-
chus. the founder of the xxvith dynasty of Pharaohs, who garrisoned it with Greek merce-
naries encamped on each side of the Pelusiac mouth of the Nile