The water in this lake does not spring from the soil, for these parts are excessively dry, but it is conveyed through a channel from the Nile, and for six months it flows into the lake, and six months out again into the Nile. Queer Things about Egypt - Page 245by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1911 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...one hundred orgyae in height ; and a hundred orgyae are equal to a stade of six plethra ; the orgya measuring six feet, or four cubits ; the foot being...Nile. And during the six months that it flows out it yields a talent of silver every day to the king's treasury from the fish ; but when the water is... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...one hundred orgyao in height ; and a hundred orgyae are equal to a stade of six plethra; the orgya measuring six feet, or four cubits ; the foot being...Nile. And during the six months that it flows out it yields a talent of silver every day to the king's treasury from the fish ; but when the water is... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1868 - 634 pages
...water in this lake does not '3 spring from the soil, for these parts are excessively dry, but rht'V / it is conveyed through a channel from the Nile, and for six /p months it flows into the lake, and six months out again into the Nile ; and during the six months... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...one hundred orgyae in height ; and a hundred orgyae are equal to a stade of six plethra; the orgya measuring six feet, or four cubits ; the foot being...Nile. And during the six months that it flows out it yields a talent of silver every day to the king's treasury from the fish ; but when the water is... | |
| Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 338 pages
...it is named, was probably one of the Muhammedan rulers of Egypt. Herodotus saysj of Lake Moeris, ;' The water in this lake does not spring from the soil,...Nile. And during the six months that it flows out it yields a talent of silver (^£240) every day to the king's treasury from the fish ; but when the... | |
| Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 244 pages
...probably the Mnhammadan ruler who is mentioned in so many Arabic histories. VOL. III. E "from the Nile,1 and for six months it flows into the " lake, and six...Nile. And "during the six months that it flows out it yields a " talent of silver every day to the king's treasury from " the fish ; but when the water... | |
| Esther Singleton - 1912 - 462 pages
...one hundred orgyas in height ; and a hundred orgyae are equal to a stade of six plethra; the orgya measuring six feet, or four cubits; the foot being...Nile. And during the six months that it flows out it yields a talent of silver every day to the king's treasury from the fish ; but when the water is... | |
| Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...after whom it is named, was some Muhammadan ruler of Egypt. Herodotus says (ii, 149) of Lake Moeris, "The water in this lake does not spring " from the...Nile. And during the six months that it flows out it " yields a talent of silver (^240) every day to the king's " treasury from the fish ; but when the... | |
| Yosef Ben-Jochannan - 1989 - 482 pages
...DAM's operation .wrote the following about them in his book, HISTORIES: 352 ". . .the water in lakes does not spring from the soil, for these parts are...Nile, and for six months It flows into the lake, and for six months out again into the Nile. The above quotation was taken from Lepsius' DEMKMALER. Q. Can... | |
| E. A. Wallis Budge - 2001 - 344 pages
...it is named, was probably one of the Muhammedan rulers of Egypt, Herodotus saysj of Lake Moeris, ;* The water in this lake does not spring from the soil,...Nile. And during the six months that it flows out it yields a talent of silver (£240) every day to the king's treasury from the fish ; but when the... | |
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