Nov,7] PROCEEDINGS. [1893.thena comparison withthe map of Egypt fromthe Ptolemaic Atlas,
published in these Proceedings, Dec, 1892, cannot fail to be
instructive.*
Reservingfor another occasiona detailed discussionof the points
whichpresentthemselves,it is sufficient to say that the four canals,
describedin the vertical line,PlateIII,wouldbe in working order,
if a lake, as a storage-reservoir, should be formed in the Wadi
Raiyan.t TheCivitasNiliwouldalsoreappearuponthe map.
Theentireroll,therefore,maybe described as composed of :
I. The Moeris-Labyrinthtitle-page, publishedin fac-simile by
M. Mariette andDr. Pleijte, stolen from the Museum of Boulaq,
andnowin the possession of Dr. Reinisch.
II. Three unpublishedfragments,belongingto Mr. Hood, of a
totallengthof about 7 inches ; and, probably,certainotherfragments
in the possession of Lord Amherstof Hackney.
III. The " Labyrinth " Section, commencing with Plate I,
the textHi:, andthe end, Plate II, to be added to the Harris-
Eisenlohrtracingof Pleijte's edition. Twelvevignettesandtextsin
the oval will be published in a future numberof these Proceedings.
IV. The Canals of the North andSouth, and the Fayoum
branch of the Bahr Jusuf. These are " the two entrances" of
Strabo, and "the canal which Meris cut, 40 stadia in length,"
(DiodorusI, IV.)
V. The Fayoum; and the Temple-Dam at Ha-Uar-t [\ a J f?,Hauara,Avaptt(see Pierret, p. 341, andBrugsch,D.G,I, 86-90,
278-280,for hieroglyphs; but for the identification Fayoum-Avaris-
Goshen,my paper, Proceedings,1885,p. 116).
VI. "PapyrusNo.2," of Boulaq, publishedby M. Mariette and
by Dr. Pleijte,as completed on Plate III ; and the vertical line :
" These are the two canalsof the North ; these are the two canals
of the South, whichwaterthe Nome of ta Se."* In "The Geographyof Ptolemy elucidated,"Mr.T. G. Rylands has
solved,withinfinitelabour,greatskill,andfertilityof suggestion, a problem of
extremedifficulty. Theerrorsof observation howeverwhichdistortScotland,
haveno parallelhere. TheOriginalGreekmapof Egypt adoptedby the Latin
translatornot only depictsa part of the world wherethe low latitudes are more
nearlya plane surface,but each placein the Nile valleyhadbeenvisitedby
CI. Ptolemy himself.
t See Parliamentary Report," Egypt," 1893.
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