View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryHarper & Brothers, 1846 - 348 pages |
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... covered in the religious usages of the Chinese , compared with those of the Egyptians , particularly in what is called the feast of lamps , -a festival annually observed by the latter people , and graphically described by Herodotus in ...
... covered in the religious usages of the Chinese , compared with those of the Egyptians , particularly in what is called the feast of lamps , -a festival annually observed by the latter people , and graphically described by Herodotus in ...
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... covered in Egypt . The temples , too , on the banks of the river above the cataracts bear a closer resemblance to those of India than the corresponding edifices in the lower parts of the country , while they exhibit the undoubted marks ...
... covered in Egypt . The temples , too , on the banks of the river above the cataracts bear a closer resemblance to those of India than the corresponding edifices in the lower parts of the country , while they exhibit the undoubted marks ...
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... covered with less than fifteen or sixteen cubits of water . The addition of soil , therefore , was equal to seven cubits at the least , or a hundred and twenty - six inches , in the course of nine hundred years . " But at present ...
... covered with less than fifteen or sixteen cubits of water . The addition of soil , therefore , was equal to seven cubits at the least , or a hundred and twenty - six inches , in the course of nine hundred years . " But at present ...
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... covered with flocks , herds , and an agricultural population , and only watered by a fine river passing through their centre . In this way the interior of every continent is imperceptibly drained , and new tracts of alluvial land are ...
... covered with flocks , herds , and an agricultural population , and only watered by a fine river passing through their centre . In this way the interior of every continent is imperceptibly drained , and new tracts of alluvial land are ...
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... covered by the increasing soil , after having been abandoned by its inhabitants , who had found the use of mounds unavailing . Bubastis , when about to fall a prey to the same destroyer , was rebuilt on higher ground ; but the beautiful ...
... covered by the increasing soil , after having been abandoned by its inhabitants , who had found the use of mounds unavailing . Bubastis , when about to fall a prey to the same destroyer , was rebuilt on higher ground ; but the beautiful ...
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