ny
at the river. See Pocock, p. 70, and the map prefixed to that part
of his travels. Travelling from hence one day's journey up the
river, then turning from the south towards the east, over sandy
deserts, and a chain of high mountains, in which springs of water,
in other parts very rare, are here and there found, and camels
travel for one hundred miles, we arrive at St. Antony's great
monastery, about six or seven hours journey from the Red Sea. See
Pocock, ib. p. 128. Granger, Relation du Voyage, &c., p. 107. Nouv.
Memoires des Missions, t. 5, p. 136. Vanslebius, Nouv. Relat. pp.
299 and 309; and Maillet. Descr. de 'Egypte, p. 320. The Grotto of
St. Paul is shown not very far from this great monastery; yet the
road wing [sic] round the mountains, and a great way about it, seems
to travellers as a great distance from it.
8. St. Athan. Vit. Anton. n. 45, p. 830.
9. P. 814.
10. P. 823, ed. Ben.
11. Rosweide, l. 3, c. 129. Cotelier, &c.
12. S. Nilus, ep. 24. Cotelier, Apoth. Patr. p. 340. Rosweide, Vit.
Patr. l. 3, c. 105, l. 5, c. 7.
13. Cassian, Collat. c. 31.
14. S. Athan. n. 82, p. 857. S. Chrys. Hom. 8, in Matt. S. Hier. ep.
{}6. Sozom. l. 6, c. 5.
15. S. Athan. n. 68, 69, p. 847.
16. Ibid. n. 85. p. 859.
17. Ibid. n. 80, p. 855.
18. N. 77, p. 858.
19. N. 86, p. 860.
20. Bibl. Patr. Colon. t. 4, p. 26. See S. Antonii. M. Epistolae 20. cura
Abr. Eckellens. Paris, 1641. But only the above-mentioned seven
letters can be regarded as genuine, except the discourses preserved
by St. Athanasius in his life.
21. Ep. 2, ad Arsinoitas.
22. Ib.
23. Maij. t. 3, p. 355.
24. That under his name in Abraham Eckellensis is not of so high a
pedigree. A large body of the monks of St. Basil in the East, since
the seventh century, take the name of the Order of St. Antony, but
retain the rule of St. Basil, comprised in his ascetic writings; and
observe the same fasts, and other exercises, with all the other
monks of the East, who are called of the order of St. Basil; which
even the Maronites follow; though Tillemont denies it by mistake.
25. Rosweide, Vit. Patr. l. 5, c. 8. Abr. Eckellens. in Vit. S. Ant. p.
106. Cotel. p. 344. Mart. Coptor.
26. S. Athan. n. 55, p. 858.
27. N. 16 & 43.
28. The Ependytes of St. Antony, mentioned by St. Athanasius, n. 46, p.
831, has much embarrassed the critics: it seems to have been a cloak