[Footnote 106: The position of New and of Old Cairo is well
known, and has been often described. Two writers, who were
intimately acquainted with ancient and modern Egypt, have
fixed, after a learned inquiry, the city of Memphis at
Gizeh, directly opposite the Old Cairo, (Sicard, Nouveaux
Memoires des Missions du Levant, tom. vi. p. 5, 6. Shaw's
Observations and Travels, p. 296 - 304.) Yet we may not
disregard the authority or the arguments of Pocock, (vol. i.
p. 25 - 41,) Niebuhr, (Voyage, tom. i. p. 77 - 106,) and
above all, of D'Anville, (Description de l'Egypte, p. 111,
112, 130 - 149,) who have removed Memphis towards the
village of Mohannah, some miles farther to the south. In
their heat, the disputants have forgot that the ample space
of a metropolis covers and annihilates the far greater part
of the controversy.]