The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptThos. Cook & son, Ludgate Circus, 1893 - 425 pages |
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Page 45
... banks are so low that its whitish slimy deposit often extends to a distance of two miles from the stream . For about a hundred miles south of Kharţûm the river is little more than a marsh . land of Egypt . over the land on each side.
... banks are so low that its whitish slimy deposit often extends to a distance of two miles from the stream . For about a hundred miles south of Kharţûm the river is little more than a marsh . land of Egypt . over the land on each side.
Page 46
... . The breadth of the Nile valley varies from four to ten miles in Nubia , and from fifteen to thirty in Egypt . The width of the strips of cultivated land on each bank 46 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT . Elephantine The First Cataract.
... . The breadth of the Nile valley varies from four to ten miles in Nubia , and from fifteen to thirty in Egypt . The width of the strips of cultivated land on each bank 46 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT . Elephantine The First Cataract.
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... bank of the river in Egypt together is never more than eight or nine miles . In ancient days the Nile poured its waters into the sea by seven mouths ; those of Damietta and Rosetta * are now , however , the only two which remain . The ...
... bank of the river in Egypt together is never more than eight or nine miles . In ancient days the Nile poured its waters into the sea by seven mouths ; those of Damietta and Rosetta * are now , however , the only two which remain . The ...
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... bank of the Tanaïtic branch of the Nile , about thirty miles nearly due west of the ancient Pelusium ; and as it was near the north- east frontier of Egypt , it was always one of the towns which formed the object of the first attack of ...
... bank of the Tanaïtic branch of the Nile , about thirty miles nearly due west of the ancient Pelusium ; and as it was near the north- east frontier of Egypt , it was always one of the towns which formed the object of the first attack of ...
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... bank of the Nile , about ten miles south of the division of the Nile into the Rosetta and Damietta branches . It is called in Arabic Maşr * : it is the largest city in Africa , and its population must be now about half a million souls ...
... bank of the Nile , about ten miles south of the division of the Nile into the Rosetta and Damietta branches . It is called in Arabic Maşr * : it is the largest city in Africa , and its population must be now about half a million souls ...
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Abydos Alexandria Amāsis Åmen Amen-Rā Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian antiquities Anubis Arabic Aswân beautiful Black granite body Bubastis building built Bûlâk Cairo called canal cartouches chamber church coffin and mummy comest Coptic Copts dead Dêr east Egyptian Ethiopia excavations famous Fayyûm feet figures funereal Gebel Barkal Gizeh goddess gods granite Greek Hail Hathor Heliopolis hieroglyphic honour Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis IVth Karnak land large number Limestone Limestone stele lord Mariette Maspero Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Muḥammad mummy Nekht Nile Nubia obelisk Osiris papyrus priest Psammetichus Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid Queen Rameses Rameses II Red granite reign represented river Roman Room Sakkârah sarcophagus scarabs scribe sculptures Seti shrine side sphinxes stele stone Suez Sulțân table of offerings tablets Tanis temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Vth dynasty walls XIIth XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth
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Page 34 - 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 97 - 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 108 - 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 119 - 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 225 - ... 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 128 - Her sacred precinct is thus situated : All except the entrance is an island ; for two canals from the Nile extend to it, not mingling with each other, but each reaches as far as the entrance of the precinct, one flowing round it on one side, the other on the other. Each is a hundred feet broad, and shaded with trees. The portico is ten orgyae in height, and is adorned with figures six cubits high, that are deserving of notice. This precinct, being in the middle of the city, is visible on every side...
Page 281 - ... 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 viii - It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to run logs in the river.
Page 199 - These balls are at first irregularly shaped and soft, but by degrees, and during the process of rolling along, become rounded and harder; they are propelled by means of the hind legs.
Page 225 - And they worked to the number of 100,000 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, along which they drew the stones, a work in my opinion, not much less than the pyramid...