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APPENDIX. No. II.
PART I.
If the Reader will call his eye on D’Anville’s plan of
ancient Alexandria, which I have caufed to be exadtlv
engraved from his Memoires fur TEgypte, he will fee, on
the weftern fide, the port of Eunoftus; and towards the
fouthern part of this, the fmaller port of Kibotus. The
Canal palling from the Kibotus to the lake Mareotis, and
here fpoken of by Strabo, appears to be placed by
D’Anville with fufficient accuracy, and is called by him
Fossa. The evidence of Strabo, as to the Site of the
Serapeum, amounts diftindfly to this, that the Serapeum
lay within, or east of this canal : but whether it
were nearer to the fouthern or northern point of it, he
does not determine. This matter, however, feems fully
afcertained by a Latin writer, whofe authority ranks
high amongft fcholars.
MACROBIUS.
“ Nullum tEgypti oppidum intra muros suos
“ AUT SaTURNI AUT SeRAPIS FANUM RECEPITa.”
This evidence of Macrobius clearly fixes the Site of
the Serapeum near the fouthern part of the Canal, and
even beyond the walls of the cityb. But the Greek
a Macrob. Saturnal. lib. i. cap. vii.
b “ It is to be obferved, that as he [Serapis] was a new god, fo he
“ brought in with him among the Egyptians a new way of worfhip. For,
APPENDIX. No. II.
PART I.
If the Reader will call his eye on D’Anville’s plan of
ancient Alexandria, which I have caufed to be exadtlv
engraved from his Memoires fur TEgypte, he will fee, on
the weftern fide, the port of Eunoftus; and towards the
fouthern part of this, the fmaller port of Kibotus. The
Canal palling from the Kibotus to the lake Mareotis, and
here fpoken of by Strabo, appears to be placed by
D’Anville with fufficient accuracy, and is called by him
Fossa. The evidence of Strabo, as to the Site of the
Serapeum, amounts diftindfly to this, that the Serapeum
lay within, or east of this canal : but whether it
were nearer to the fouthern or northern point of it, he
does not determine. This matter, however, feems fully
afcertained by a Latin writer, whofe authority ranks
high amongft fcholars.
MACROBIUS.
“ Nullum tEgypti oppidum intra muros suos
“ AUT SaTURNI AUT SeRAPIS FANUM RECEPITa.”
This evidence of Macrobius clearly fixes the Site of
the Serapeum near the fouthern part of the Canal, and
even beyond the walls of the cityb. But the Greek
a Macrob. Saturnal. lib. i. cap. vii.
b “ It is to be obferved, that as he [Serapis] was a new god, fo he
“ brought in with him among the Egyptians a new way of worfhip. For,