The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... eastern desert and also cover large areas of it . The direction of the Nile Valley is generally north and south ... east of Kena I quote from his description of the geology of Egypt written for Major Willcocks , C.M.G. , and printed ...
... eastern desert and also cover large areas of it . The direction of the Nile Valley is generally north and south ... east of Kena I quote from his description of the geology of Egypt written for Major Willcocks , C.M.G. , and printed ...
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... East into Egypt ; we are , however , justified in assuming that it took place long before B.C. 5000 . When the people from the East had made their way into Egypt , they found there at least two indigenous races , one with a dark , and ...
... East into Egypt ; we are , however , justified in assuming that it took place long before B.C. 5000 . When the people from the East had made their way into Egypt , they found there at least two indigenous races , one with a dark , and ...
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... Eastern Desert to Coptos on the Nile . But by which road they entered Egypt is , relatively , of little importance ; that they came primarily from the East is beyond dispute . All the known evidence contradicts the theory that Arabia ...
... Eastern Desert to Coptos on the Nile . But by which road they entered Egypt is , relatively , of little importance ; that they came primarily from the East is beyond dispute . All the known evidence contradicts the theory that Arabia ...
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... east or right bank . From the latter river to Kharțûm , a distance of about 598 miles , the White Nile flows slowly in a stream about 6 feet deep , and considerably more than a mile wide . At Khartûm , where the Blue Nile from Abyssinia ...
... east or right bank . From the latter river to Kharțûm , a distance of about 598 miles , the White Nile flows slowly in a stream about 6 feet deep , and considerably more than a mile wide . At Khartûm , where the Blue Nile from Abyssinia ...
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... east of the Oases of Farâfra and Dâkhlah , at a distance of about four days ' journey from the Fayyûm . The ruins there belong chiefly to the Roman period . The Arabic name " Northern Oasis " seems to be a translation of its old ...
... east of the Oases of Farâfra and Dâkhlah , at a distance of about four days ' journey from the Fayyûm . The ruins there belong chiefly to the Roman period . The Arabic name " Northern Oasis " seems to be a translation of its old ...
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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.