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Page 46
In ancient days the ceremony of cutting the canals was accompanied with great
festivities, and great attention was paid to the height of the river in various parts of
Egypt, that the cutting might take place at the most favourable time. We learn, on
...
In ancient days the ceremony of cutting the canals was accompanied with great
festivities, and great attention was paid to the height of the river in various parts of
Egypt, that the cutting might take place at the most favourable time. We learn, on
...
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monuments, are now washed by the waters of the inundation and imbedded to a
certain height in a stratum of alluvial soil which has been deposited around their
base. The land about Elephantine and at Thebes has been raised about nine ...
monuments, are now washed by the waters of the inundation and imbedded to a
certain height in a stratum of alluvial soil which has been deposited around their
base. The land about Elephantine and at Thebes has been raised about nine ...
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All creatures say ' Hail to thee,' and all lands praise thee ; from the height of the
sky, to the breadth of the earth, and to the depths of the sea art thou praised. The
gods bow down before thy majesty to exalt the Will of their creator ; they rejoice ...
All creatures say ' Hail to thee,' and all lands praise thee ; from the height of the
sky, to the breadth of the earth, and to the depths of the sea art thou praised. The
gods bow down before thy majesty to exalt the Will of their creator ; they rejoice ...
Page 101
... height, the other 68^ feet ; the diameter of each is about i\ feet. The larger
obelisk was given by Muhammad 'Ali to the English early in this century, but it
was not removed until 1877, when it was transported to England at the expense
of Sir ...
... height, the other 68^ feet ; the diameter of each is about i\ feet. The larger
obelisk was given by Muhammad 'Ali to the English early in this century, but it
was not removed until 1877, when it was transported to England at the expense
of Sir ...
Page 107
... or the ' bridge,' is entered ; it is about fifty-five feet above the level of the sea.
Through this a channel about eighty feet deep had to be cut. Passing through
Lake Balah, el-Kantara, 'the bridge,' a place situated on a height between the
Balah ...
... or the ' bridge,' is entered ; it is about fifty-five feet above the level of the sea.
Through this a channel about eighty feet deep had to be cut. Passing through
Lake Balah, el-Kantara, 'the bridge,' a place situated on a height between the
Balah ...
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Page 35 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Page 81 - Hail to thee, maker of all beings, Lord of law, father of the gods ; maker of men, creator of beasts ; Lord of grains, making food for the beast of the field The One alone without a second King alone, single among the gods ; of many names, unknown is their number.
Page 90 - Isis set out once more in search of the scattered members of her husband's body, using a boat made of the papyrus rush in order the more easily to pass through the lower and fenny parts of the country.
Page 100 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved • if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be de stroyed.
Page 164 - The rooms above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal inspection. But the underground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians who have charge of the building would, on no account, show me them, saying, that there were the sepulchres of the kings who originally built this labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have...
Page 138 - ... ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile.
Page 193 - ... there was no city under the sun so ' adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold, silver, and ' ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks, cut out of one entire 'stone.
Page vii - It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to run logs in the river.
Page 139 - Cheops reached such a degree of infamy, that being in want of money, he prostituted his own daughter in a brothel, and ordered her to extort, they did not say how much ; but she exacted a certain sum of money, privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone towards the edifice she designed : of these stones they said the pyramid was built that stands in the middle of the three, before the great...
Page 138 - And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil lasted ten years on the road which they constructed...
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| Title | The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Publisher | T. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 311 pages |
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