 | Herodotus - 1824 - 384 pages
...winter, and even to the return of the next summer solstice. Of these particulars I could get no account from the Egyptians, though I inquired whether this river have any peculiar quality, so as to be different in nature from other rivers ; and my great desire to be informed not only led... | |
 | Herodotus - 1824 - 380 pages
...winter, and even to the return of the next summer solstice. Of these particulars I could get no account from the Egyptians, though I inquired whether this river have any peculiar quality, so as to be different in nature from other rivers; and my great. desire to be informed not only led... | |
 | Herodotus - 1824 - 402 pages
...winter, and even to the return of the next summer solstice. Of these particulars I could get no account from the Egyptians, though I inquired whether this river have any peculiar quality, so as to be different in nature from other rivers ; and my great desire to be informed not only led... | |
 | William Hales - 1830 - 532 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days ; and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter, until the return of the summer solstice." Diodorus, B. 1,3. says, " Its inundation begins at the summer solstice, and increases till the autumnal... | |
 | 1841 - 214 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days ; and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter, until the return of the summer solstice. Diodorus writes to the same effect, stating that the inundation begins at the summer solstice, and... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1844 - 338 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days ; and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter, until the return of the summer solstice. Diodorus writes to the same effect, stating that the inundation begins at the summer solstice, and... | |
 | 1844 - 326 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days ; and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter, until the return of the summer solstice. Diodorus writes to the same effect, stating that the inundation begins at the summer solstice, and... | |
 | John McClintock - 1877 - 1196 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days, and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter until the return of the summer solstice. This is confirmed by the reports of modern travellers. According to Pococke, the Nile began to ri«e... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1878 - 656 pages
...solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly completed this number of days, falls short in its stream, and retires ; so that it...the Egyptians, though I inquired whether this river has any peculiar quality that makes it differ in nature from other rivers. Being anxious, then, of... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1878 - 644 pages
...solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly completed this number of days, falls short in its stream, and retires ; so that it...the Egyptians, though I inquired whether this river has any peculiar quality that makes it differ in nature from other rivers. Being anxious, then, of... | |
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I was unable to gain any information, either from the priests or any one else. I was very desirous, however, of learning from them why the Nile, beginning at the summer solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly completed... 
