is, that of El Kassar, was visited and
described by Belzoni. 3. The great Oasis, and its splendid ruins, have
been well described in the travels of Sir A. Edmonstone. To these must
be added another Western Oasis also visited by Sir A. Edmonstone.--M.]

[Footnote 55: The invitation of Nestorius to the synod of Chalcedon,
is related by Zacharias, bishop of Melitene (Evagrius, l. ii. c. 2.
Asseman. Biblioth. Orient. tom. ii. p. 55,) and the famous Xenaias or
Philoxenus, bishop of Hierapolis, (Asseman. Bibliot. Orient. tom. ii. p.
40, &c.,) denied by Evagrius and Asseman, and stoutly maintained by
La Croze, (Thesaur. Epistol. tom. iii. p. 181, &c.) The fact is not
improbable; yet it was the interest of the Monophysites to spread the
invidious report, and Eutychius (tom. ii. p. 12) affirms, that Nestorius
died after an exile of seven years, and consequently ten years before
the synod of Chalcedon.]

[Footnote 56: Consult D'Anville, (Memoire sur l'Egypte, p. 191,) Pocock.
(Description of the East, vol. i. p. 76,) Abulfeda, (Descript. Aegypt,
p. 14,) and his commentator Michaelis, (Not. p. 78--83,) and the Nubian
Geographer, (p. 42,) who mentions, in the xiith century, the ruins and
the sugar-canes of Akmim.]

[Footnote 57: Eutychius (Annal. tom. ii. p. 12) and Gregory
Bar-Hebraeus, of Abulpharagius, (Asseman, tom. ii. p. 316,) represent
the credulity of the xth and xiith centuries.]

[Footnote 58: We are obliged to Evagrius (l. i. c. 7) for some extracts
from the letters of Nestorius; but the lively picture of his sufferings
is treated with insult by the hard and stupid fanatic.]

Chapter XLVII: Ecclesiastical Discord.--Part III.

The death of the Alexandrian primate, after a reign of thirty-two years,
abandoned the Catholics to the intemperance of zeal and the abuse
of victory. [59] The monophysite doctrine (one incarnate nature) was
rigorously preached in the churches of Egypt and the monasteries of the
East; the primitive creed of Apollinarius was protected by the sanctity
of Cyril; and the name of Eutyches, his venerable friend, has been
applied to the sect most adverse to the Syrian heresy of Nestorius. His
rival Eutyches was the abbot, or archimandrite, or superior of three
hundred monks, but the opinions of a simple and illiterate recluse might
have expired in the cell, where he had slept above seventy years, if the
resentment or indiscretion of Flavian, the Byzantine pontiff, had not
exposed the scandal