. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . oddess of Athribis, where of Ammon in the Oasis. The posi- the Mygale or shrew-mouse, which was tion of the city of Latona, near the sacred to Buto, was said by Strabo to Sebennytic mouth, was on the W. bank, have been worshipped. I have seen a between that brauc
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . oddess of Athribis, where of Ammon in the Oasis. The posi- the Mygale or shrew-mouse, which was tion of the city of Latona, near the sacred to Buto, was said by Strabo to Sebennytic mouth, was on the W. bank, have been worshipped. I have seen a between that brauch of the Nile and tlie small figure of a hedgehog with the lake, about 20 miles from the sea. The name of Buto upon it. Buto, as Cham- isle of Chemmis was in that lake. He- pollion supposed, was piobably primaeval rodotus is supposed to have been in- daikness. (See notes ^ and on B. ii. debted to Hecateeus for the mention of ch. 59, and App. Cii. iii. § 2, Maut.) this island. (See MuUers Fragm. Hist. Lucian (De Dea Syria, s. 36) says there Griec. vol. i.)—[G. W.] were many oracles in Egypt, as in This is the height of the pyramidal Greece, Asia, and Libya, the responses towers of the propylaium, or court of of which were given • by priests and entrance. The 10 orgyiro, or 60 feet, is 202 ISOLATED EGYPTIAN TEMPLE. Book 1g=jliiM Mil lliiiiMi V I f <ift . k^ Chap. 155, 156. ISLAND OF CHEMMIS. 203 wonderful thing tliat was actually to be seen about this temple ^was a chapel in the enclosure made of a single stone,^ the lengthand height of which were the same, each wall being forty cubitssquare, and the whole a single block ! Another block of stoneformed the roof, and projected at the eaves to the extent of fourcubits. 156. This, as I have said, was what astonished me the most,of all the things that w^re actually to be seen about the next greatest marvel was the island called Chemmis. Thisisland lies in the middle of a broad and deep lake close by thetemple,
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