 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1878 - 646 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 continues low all the winter, \\nt\\ the return of the summer solstice. Of these particulars I could get no information from the... | |
 | Manchester Geographical Society - 1889 - 988 pages
...solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly complet^ this number of days, falls short in its stream and retires ; so that it...the winter, until the return of the summer solstice . . . by saying that the Nile flows from melted snow, it saya nothing, for this river flows from Libya... | |
 | Manchester Geographical Society - 1890 - 512 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...low all the winter, until the return of the summer solgtioe . . . by saying that the Nile flows from melted snow, it says nothing, for this river flows... | |
 | Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly completed this num ber of days, falls short in its stream, and retires ; so that it...this matter, I made inquiries, and also how it comes to,jfiiss, that this is the only one of all rivers that does not sn&mth breezes from its surface. 20.... | |
 | Albert Lee - 1906 - 400 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...winter, until the return of the summer solstice." Herodotus ridiculed the ideas held by some Greeks, and especially one which accounted for the rise... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - 454 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...winter, until the return of the summer solstice." Seneca writes that the Emperor Nero sent an exploring expedition under two centurions with military... | |
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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... 
