rt of _Libya_, anciently
called _Ammonia_. _Stephanus_ [246] saith [Greek: Pasa he Libye houtos
ekaleito apo Ammonos;] _All _Libya_ was anciently called _Ammonia_ from
_Ammon__: this is that King of _Egypt_ from whom _Thebes_ was called
_No-Ammon_, and _Ammon-no_ the city of _Ammon_, and by the _Greeks
Diospolis_, the city of _Jupiter Ammon_: _Sesostris_ built it sumptuously,
and called it by his father's name, and from the same King the [247] River
called _Ammon_, the people called _Ammonii_, and the [248] promontory
_Ammonium_ in _Arabia faelix_ had their names.

The lower part of _Egypt_ being yearly overflowed by the _Nile_, was scarce
inhabited before the invention of corn, which made it useful: and the King,
who by this invention first peopled it and Reigned over it, perhaps the
King of the city _Mesir_ where _Memphis_ was afterwards built, seems to
have been worshipped by his subjects after death, in the ox or calf, for
this benefaction: for this city stood in the most convenient place to
people the lower _Egypt_, and from its being composed of two parts seated
on each side of the river _Nile_, might give the name of _Mizraim_ to its
founder and people; unless you had rather refer the word to the double
people, those above the _Delta_, and those within it: and this I take to be
the state of the lower _Egypt_, 'till the Shepherds or _Phoenicians_ who
fled from _Joshuah_ conquered it, and being afterwards conquered by the
_Ethiopians_, fled into _Afric_ and other places: for there was a tradition
that some of them fled into _Afric_; and St. _Austin_ [249] confirms this,
by telling us that the common people of _Afric_ being asked who they were,
replied _Chanani_, that is, _Canaanites_. _Interrogati rustici nostri_,
saith he, _quid sint, Punice respondentes Chanani, corrupta scilicet voce
sicut in talibus solet, quid aliud respondent quam Chanaanaei?_ _Procopius_
also [250] tells us of two pillars in the west of _Afric_, with
inscriptions signifying that the people were _Canaanites_ who fled from
_Joshuah_: and _Eusebius_ [251] tells us, that these _Canaanites_ flying
from the sons of _Israel_, built _Tripolis_ in _Afric_; and the _Jerusalem
Gemara_, [252] that the _Gergesites_ fled from _Joshua_, going into
_Afric_: and _Procopius_ relates their flight in this manner. [Greek: Epei
de hemas ho tes historias logos entauth' egagen. epanankes eipein anothen,
hothen te ta Maurousion ethne es Libyen elthe, kai hopos oikesan