View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryOliver & Boyd, 1831 - 480 pages |
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Page 31
... usually paid to the founders of nations . Bruce remarks that Y Gypt , the term used by the Ethiopians when they speak of Egypt , means the country of canals , -a description very suitable to the improved condition of that singu- lar ...
... usually paid to the founders of nations . Bruce remarks that Y Gypt , the term used by the Ethiopians when they speak of Egypt , means the country of canals , -a description very suitable to the improved condition of that singu- lar ...
Page 39
... usually rises to twenty - four , before the whole country is overflow- ed . Since the time , therefore , of Herodotus , Egypt has gained new soil to the depth of two hundred and thirty inches . And if we look back from the reign of ...
... usually rises to twenty - four , before the whole country is overflow- ed . Since the time , therefore , of Herodotus , Egypt has gained new soil to the depth of two hundred and thirty inches . And if we look back from the reign of ...
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... usually of the same depth , we find it in Egypt to vary in proportion to its distance from the river , -being in some places near the banks more than thirty feet , while at the extremity of the inundation it does not exceed six inches ...
... usually of the same depth , we find it in Egypt to vary in proportion to its distance from the river , -being in some places near the banks more than thirty feet , while at the extremity of the inundation it does not exceed six inches ...
Page 54
... usually of short continuance , and almost never experienced except in the more confined districts of the Saïd . At sun- set the wind falls , the air becomes cooler , and the vapour suspended in the atmosphere during the day is deposited ...
... usually of short continuance , and almost never experienced except in the more confined districts of the Saïd . At sun- set the wind falls , the air becomes cooler , and the vapour suspended in the atmosphere during the day is deposited ...
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... usually divided into Upper and Lower , the latitude of Cairo presenting in our day the line of demarcation . But besides this distinction there is another of great antiquity , to which frequent al- lusion is made by the Greek and Roman ...
... usually divided into Upper and Lower , the latitude of Cairo presenting in our day the line of demarcation . But besides this distinction there is another of great antiquity , to which frequent al- lusion is made by the Greek and Roman ...
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Page 261 - Son of man, dig now in the wall." And when I had digged in the wall, behold a door: and he said unto me, "Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 189 - An Account of some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature and Egyptian Antiquities, &c.
Page 226 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on the south side of the...
Page 273 - How much commerce and navigation in particular, how many shipbuilders, sailors, sailmakers, ropemakers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world! What a variety of labor too is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen!
Page 255 - I have reserved till this place, merits the most particular attention, not having its equal in the world, and being such as we had no idea could exist. It is a sarcophagus of the finest oriental alabaster, nine feet five inches long, and three feet seven inches wide. Its thickness is only two inches ; and it is transparent, when a light is placed in the inside of it.
Page 261 - So I went in and saw ; and, behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
Page 107 - Greeks ; but even these are inferior to the Labyrinth. It is composed of twelve courts, all of which are covered ; their entrances are opposite to each other, six to the north and six to the south ; one wall encloses the whole. The apartments are of two kinds ; there are fifteen hundred above the surface of the ground, and as many beneath, — in all three thousand.
Page 50 - Their cottages, being built of earth, could not stand one instant against the current, and no sooner did the water reach them, than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it; men, women, children, cattle, corn...
Page 452 - I bear you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 422 - Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come ; and send for cunning women, that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.