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Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798

Note 29 — CHAP. XIII.

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Pococke, vol. i. p. 56. conceives this place to have received its name from the Greek word Ταμιέια, there having been a kind of lock there to restrain or let loose the water in the canal which passes by it.

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