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I have already made mention more than once of the Egyptian oracle,
and, as it well deserves notice, I shall now proceed to give an
account of it more at length. It is a temple of Latona, situated in
the midst of a great city on the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile, at
some distance up the river from the sea. The name of the city, as I
have before observed, is Buto; and in it are two other temples also,
one of Apollo and one of Diana. Latona's temple, which contains
the oracle, is a spacious building with a gateway ten fathoms in
height. The most wonderful thing that was actually to be seen about
this temple was a chapel in the enclosure made of a single stone, the
length and height of which were the same, each wall being forty cubits
square, and the whole a single block! Another block of stone formed
the roof and projected at the eaves to the extent of four cubits.
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