The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... feet . No fossils whatever are found in the Nubian sandstone . From Abu Simbel northwards the valley is bounded on the left by the high limestone plateau called by the Arabs . Sinn al - Kiddâb , which , at this point , is more than 50 ...
... feet . No fossils whatever are found in the Nubian sandstone . From Abu Simbel northwards the valley is bounded on the left by the high limestone plateau called by the Arabs . Sinn al - Kiddâb , which , at this point , is more than 50 ...
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... feet above the sea , and is 1,625 feet higher than Lake Albert ; it is 160 miles long , 200 miles wide , and its area is 70,000 square kilometres . When the river leaves the lake it is about 1,300 feet wide ; at the Ripon Falls it drops ...
... feet above the sea , and is 1,625 feet higher than Lake Albert ; it is 160 miles long , 200 miles wide , and its area is 70,000 square kilometres . When the river leaves the lake it is about 1,300 feet wide ; at the Ripon Falls it drops ...
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... feet . About 60 miles lower down begins the Fourth Cata- ract , which is 66 miles long ; between the southern and the northern end the Nile drops 160 feet . About 195 miles lower down be- gins the Third Cataract , which is 45 miles long ...
... feet . About 60 miles lower down begins the Fourth Cata- ract , which is 66 miles long ; between the southern and the northern end the Nile drops 160 feet . About 195 miles lower down be- gins the Third Cataract , which is 45 miles long ...
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... feet wide . The First Cataract is about three miles long , and be- tween Philæ at the southern end , and Aswân at the northern end the river drops over 16 feet . From Aswân to the Barrage , a little to the north of Cairo , the length of ...
... feet wide . The First Cataract is about three miles long , and be- tween Philæ at the southern end , and Aswân at the northern end the river drops over 16 feet . From Aswân to the Barrage , a little to the north of Cairo , the length of ...
Page 162
... feet and 26 feet 6 inches the whole country can be watered ; when the rise is between 26 feet 6 inches and 28 feet the country will be flooded ; and any rise beyond the last figure will spell misery and the ruin of many . The slope of ...
... feet and 26 feet 6 inches the whole country can be watered ; when the rise is between 26 feet 6 inches and 28 feet the country will be flooded ; and any rise beyond the last figure will spell misery and the ruin of many . The slope of ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abû Abydos Alexandria Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Atbara Barrage Blue Nile body British building built Cairo called canal capital Cataract chamber chapel Christians church columns Coptic Copts corvée Dêr Dervishes desert east excavations famous feet Gebel Barkal gods Government granite Greek Ḥalfa Hathor hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak Khalifa Khartûm king Lake land large number Luxor Mariette Memphis Meroë metres miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum natives Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâshâ period Philæ pillars priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid railway Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman royal ruins sarcophagus Sawâkin scenes Seti shrine side statue stele stone Sûdân Suez suten temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Wâdî walls west bank White Nile worship XIIth XVIIIth dynasty
Popular passages
Page 412 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 370 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 117 - His Britannic Majesty's Government declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Egypt. The Government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fixed for the British occupation or in any other manner...
Page 339 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 379 - 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 destroyed.
Page 13 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 411 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Page 13 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 13 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.