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7*< This Character is iilcewife Engraved at Perfipolis of Ilice An-T n lt wich the Former, k has so me Affini ty with the Syriack and

C^iek, arui has been Pretended to be Understood by forne of the Padres.Mr. p.

To the Inscriptione found at Persepolis, I fhall here add the DraugbtsP ar t of the St one-Work of that Proud Palace, given me by the Personlst lself that Drew them wpon the Place.

Xuil, I have fpent 3 Mcnths of 166cj. in a Voyage to the IJpper Mgypt,l^ ClJ rnpany’d with my Brothers, the F. Charles and Francis, always Ascend-§Upo n t he Nile as High as 300 Leagues above Cairo , being 2 Days Jour-°n this side of the Case at a's of the Nile. I there Admir’d störe of Idol-etn pks y e t Entira, together with very Ancient Palaces fili’d with Statuesf Idols. I counted in one place alone 7 Obehsks iike thole at Pome, and° ü t 120 Columns in one HaU , of the bignefs of 5 Br asses ; füll, within. r ; ( ' WJthout, fromtheTop to the Bottom, with Hieroglyphick Letters, and'st Figures of False. Deines. 1 found Statues of White-Marble ; and forne“foci, of the bignefs of 3 Persons, wit h a Sword on their side, and ofof 8 Stone; namely, a Man and nWoman, at the least of the HeightFatboms, though Seated in Qhairs \ but weil Proportional : and T wostfs of Black-Marble Reprefenting Women, with Globes on their Headsq Extravagant Coverings chereon, which were Two Foot Broad frorntl ® Shoulder to the Other.

Q lighted not bat in Two Places wbere Antiquities were to be Seen ;^ e ^vherof is call’d Loz,or, and the other Candion, which is a very Ancientsfite, esteenfd by the Tradition of the Country to have formerly been the'pfidence of a Hing- Nor indeed is this Hard to believe even before oneJ " er 5 into it, confidering in the Advenues of the seid Caßle a great Number*J?$inxes standing inaRow, andTurning their Heads towards the

known that this is an Idol having the Head of a Woman and the BodyjyjjEyflK, which was once a famous Deity among the Egjptians. They arei 1 stnt from each other about 2 Paces, and are 20 Feet Long. 1 Walked^ 4 - Adeps Ending at 4 Gatts of the Caßle ; and for ougbt 1 know, therefs? be more of them, feeing I went but Half round the Caßle , whrch is ve-Spacious. I reckon’d 60 of them on one Side of one Alley, and as ma->° v er against it; and y i in another Alley ; all well Meafur’d. The M-C s a rc of the Largenesi of a Pali mali: the Gates of the Caßle are of anJ^ordinary Height cover’d with moft Excellent Stcncs. Measuring one,'st tnaketh the Heighth of one of them, 1 found it 262 Foot Long, andj/°portiorably Thick. I believe, that there are above a Million of Figures inj/stle, none in Front; I fpeak of those that are Graven on the Walls and Pil-^ s ‘ That which mostPleasedme wasthe Ground, where she Azure and» e .°ster Colours, which arelike Enamel , appear asFrefh as if they had beenj> ai ^ on but a Month before. There are Temples so Spacious, that 3000niay Stand on the Roos with Ease. In the fame Caßle there is a Pond,

e Water whereofis Bitter, sct about with Fuse Stones. This Water is

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The Ruins osPersepolis ; hyM. Nie. Wiesen.N' 2 Io. p. 117.

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Obfirvation»Uppeii jEgyp?;by F. Brochaisvn. 7 x. p. 21 £*,