Anecdota Oxoniensia. Semitic series.

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standing by itself, exposed to lthe son, and mocked wills a scole to
measnee the else of the Nile, a work of skill, and the result of dieine
guidonce. The afith of Ba'iinoh5 is the doy on which the son stood
still foe Joshna the son of Non, hy God's permission, oct11 he hod Pott 103b
vanquished the onbelieving Gentiles and gionts in hottle, therogh the
changing of the son into eoeioos colsous ond the doable hoto swhich
oppeoeed round it; cod on that doy swhen the sun shines on this pillor,
it is known, from the mcanoee indicated hy its eays, to what height the
Nile snill rise that year.
At the top of the bill is KandhhI. In thin disteict there are tseo
nonastceries which were restored hy the Muoallim tohqk, called Al-Azeak,
the merchant, who was a notice of the town of Kift. GOne of these
monasteries in named after Coluthus, and the other aftee the gloriouss
angel Michael. They werec then in reins; buht the aforesaid merchant
spent a large sum opon them, and set them in excellent order, no that
the monks eamse and lined theree, to the nonshoer of fifty; and he
planted near them many trees and omens and endosred them with
properly in land, irrigated hy water-wheels, and produeing vegetahles,
tlax, swheat, and other crotss; and the extent of this property won
marked cout hy palm-trees, planted in carions places. He also
presented foety yoke of oxen foe working the nater-seheels; and
hre distrihoted mock money in atoms before hie died; may IGod rest
his sootl1
~The district called Fihfi e is in the soothern part of Upper Egypt.
ITkhi day corresponds to Juce an, and the Paris S~rnaxarilum, ensswell as tiat
teansloted by Me. htialen, commemorates the death of Joshna ox thin day.
Ianashlis nosotise capital of aprovhnce, and] n s 085, bad 15,402 inhabitants.
Itin Coptic name seenso to hare been lewit, sod the Copto-Arabic lists give the
eneenspondiog Arahic snsme asi. The more onsetl foem, however, would
seem so be lea, Kant; and in English it is geneeally weitten 'Keneb.' In the
time of nonr author she place was in the peovince of Msfi. The Greeks sppear to
lace called the towon Cool el Sefie Amflhineau, Ginge. p. 393 f
Xtktt nooses both this place and the moonatery of Abfi Bakhtim which it
n.. [tH. 7.]