N. B.—According to the interpretation given by Ammianus, lib. xvii. cap. 4., of the hieroglyphics on the obelisk of Thebes, which is at present in Rome in the place of St John of Latran, it appears that a Rhamestes was styled, after the eastern manner, lord of the habitable earth; and that the history told to Germanicus was only a commentary on this inscription.
[153] Pliny, lib. xxxvi. cap. 8, 9, 10, 11.
[154] That of Ramestes in Ammian. loc. cit.
[155] Stromat. lib. vi. p. 633.
[156] See the “Precis du Systeme Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens,” by M. Champollion the younger, p. 245; and his Letter to the Duke de Blacas, p. 15 et seq.
[157] This important bas-relief is engraved in the second volume of M. Caillaud’s Voyage à Meroë, Plate xxxii.
[158] Syncell, p. 59.
[159] Canon, p. 355.
[160] The whole ancient mythology of the Brahmins has relation to the plains or the course of the Ganges, where their first establishments were evidently formed.
[161] The descriptions of the ancient Chaldean monuments have a strong resemblance to what we see of those of the Indians and Egyptians; but these monuments are not equally well preserved, because they were only built of bricks dried in the sun.