with an account, ancient and modern, of the Oasis of Amun and the other oases now under the dominion of the pasha of Egypt; with a map and twenty plates illustrating the temples, scenery, etc.
281 CHAP. XVI. PTOLEMY. STRABO MENTIONS THREE OASES. — NAMES IN THE GREEK AND HIEROGLYPHIC INSCRIPTIONS ON THE MONUMENTS. NUMBER OF TEMPLES ERECTED BY THE ROMANS. OLYMPIODORUS, THE FIRST AUTHOR WHO MENTIONS THE OASIS OF DAKKEL OR WEST ERN OASIS. ATHANASIUS TOOK REFUGE IN ONE OF THE MONASTERIES OF THE OASIS MAGNA. NESTORIUS EXILED TO THAT REGION. JUVENAL. TIMASIUS. — Athanasius’s description of the oasis. — Ara bian GEOGRAPHERS. DESCRIPTION BY EDRISSI. BY ABULFEDA. BY JACUTUS. BY LEO AFRICANUS. HARTMAN. PONCET, THE FIRST MODERN TRAVELLER WHO VISITED ANY OF THESE REGIONS. Ptolemy mentions two Oases, which he calls the greater and the lesser. The greater he places in the parallel of Abydus, and the lesser near the lake Moeris, but to the south of its parallel. Ptolemy places the first in latitude 26° 55', and the lesser in 28° 45'. Pliny also mentions two Oases.