View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 348 pages |
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... Colours - Used as Places of Exile - Their Number - The Great Oasis - Described by Sir A. Edmonstone - Ancient Buildings- Necropolis or Cemetery - Supposed Origin of such Land - Western Oasis - First visited by Sir A. Edmonstone - El ...
... Colours - Used as Places of Exile - Their Number - The Great Oasis - Described by Sir A. Edmonstone - Ancient Buildings- Necropolis or Cemetery - Supposed Origin of such Land - Western Oasis - First visited by Sir A. Edmonstone - El ...
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... colour which appears in a rich soil or in the human eye . Mizraim , it ought also to be observed , was one of the children of Cham ; and it is therefore not improbable that the epithet applied to his inheritance may have arisen from the ...
... colour which appears in a rich soil or in the human eye . Mizraim , it ought also to be observed , was one of the children of Cham ; and it is therefore not improbable that the epithet applied to his inheritance may have arisen from the ...
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... when it is understood to have reached its lowest ebb . During the increase the water first acquires a green colour , sometimes pretty deep ; and after thirty or forty days this is succeeded by a brownish GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT . 39.
... when it is understood to have reached its lowest ebb . During the increase the water first acquires a green colour , sometimes pretty deep ; and after thirty or forty days this is succeeded by a brownish GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT . 39.
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... colours . Thus is realized the description of Volney , who observed that Egypt assumed in succession the appearances of an ocean of fresh water , of a miry morass , of a green level plain , and of a parched desert of sand and dust ...
... colours . Thus is realized the description of Volney , who observed that Egypt assumed in succession the appearances of an ocean of fresh water , of a miry morass , of a green level plain , and of a parched desert of sand and dust ...
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... colour of the ma- terials above that mark is also much lighter than those below . And what would almost determine that there has been water there , is that the island has the same mark , and on the same level with that on the banks of ...
... colour of the ma- terials above that mark is also much lighter than those below . And what would almost determine that there has been water there , is that the island has the same mark , and on the same level with that on the banks of ...
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