This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...them so as to oppose the greatest force to the largest body or pressure of water, and to offer the readiest means of communication from one village to another. I have already observed that the deposit gradually raising the bed of the river, and the proportionate elevation of the water of the inundation, tend ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...them so as to oppose the greatest force to the largest body or pressure of water, and to offer the readiest means of communication from one village to another. I have already observed that the deposit gradually raising the bed of the river, and the proportionate elevation of the water of the inundation, tend to increase the extent of the arable land of Egypt, and that there is now a larger tract of cultivable soil E. and W. from the river than at any previous period. This I shall endeavour to illustrate by a similar section, in which it will be seen that if the Nile, rising from its ancient bed, AB, No. 3, inundated the country in the direction and at the elevation EF, it would, when raised to CD, its modern bed (the land being also raised in proportion to G), extend its inundation on the line GH to a far greater distance over the Hajer or slope of the desert, and give an additional tract of cultivable land from F to H. That this has actually taken place I have satisfactorily ascertained by excavations, and by observing the quantity of alluvial deposit accumulated round the base of ancient monuments, and by a comparison of the height to which the water now rises and formerly rose in the nilometer of Elephantine. In the plain of Thebes are some colossal statues of Amunoph the Third, of which two still occupy their original site, and one of these has long been known under the name of the " Vocal Memnon." They stood on either side of the dromos, leading to a temple built by that Pharaoh, and at intervals, between them and the temple, were other colossi, statues, and tablets, long since thrown down or mutilated, and nearly covered by the alluvial deposits of the inundation. Their relative positions may be better understood from the plan No. 4, in the...
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