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Excerpt from Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile: Or an Inquiry Into That Geographer's Real Merits and Speculative Errors His Knowledge of Eastern Africa and the Authenticity of the Mountains of the Moon
But since there were many towns along the Nile of the Sembritae, it is evident that, if we could but ascertain the site of any one of these at the present day, the question would be decided. Now it can hardly be doubted that Sape, called also Esar (the indigenous name perhaps), was the same place which subsequently, under the name of Sobah, became the capital of Alwah, a Christian state, and the ruins of which, decidedly ancient, are still traceable on the right bank of the Blue River four hours and a half above its junction with the White. The remains of Sobah, being of well-burned brick, which is at the present day almost unknown in those countries, have been carried away by the Turks to build Khartum, and there is little left for the study of the antiquarian. The inscriptions found there are all of Christian times, and in Coptic characters; but a small statue of Osiris and some sphynxes discovered in the ruins, serve to connect the site with the pagan age 5. Now since Sape or Sobah was on the Nile, it follows that the Blue River was the Nile.
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