The Fayûm and Lake Moeris (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Fayûm and Lake Moeris

But let any one turn his face towards the Fayum, he is sure to see the speculator's will-o'-the-wisp of Lake Moeris, which must needs be followed over the marshy borders through a tangle of theories left high and dry, until the pursuer is submerged deep beneath the waters of the lake, and has to find his way out again as best he can with a theory of his own begetting or adopting.

The question of where and what Lake Moeris was has been guessed at by many, and some of the guesses have been rather wild and regardless of the attributes which the lake of the theory must be demonstrated to have, before it can be recognised as Lake Moeris.

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