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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) 12 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
nty-four hours into the Mediterranean by the Nile is,— When low150,566,392,368 cubic meters. When high705,514,667,440 The Nile at the first cataract, at Assouan, is 300 feet above its level at Cairo (578 miles）, and 365 feet above the Mediterranean (578 † 154 to the Rosetta mouth = 732 miles). The fall from Assouan to CaiAssouan to Cairo is therefore about 0.54 feet per mile; from Cairo to the Damietta mouth, about .31 feet per mile. From Assouan to Damietta mouth, an average of 0.524 feet per mile. The Nile deposit is estimated by Wilkinson, at Elephantine, as equal to nine feet in 1700 years; at Thebes, seven feet in an equal period. According to HerodoAssouan to Damietta mouth, an average of 0.524 feet per mile. The Nile deposit is estimated by Wilkinson, at Elephantine, as equal to nine feet in 1700 years; at Thebes, seven feet in an equal period. According to Herodotus, a rise of the Nile equal to 8 cubits overflowed all Egypt below Memphis, in the time of Moeris: Now Moeris had not been dead 900 years when I heard this of the priests, yet at the present day, unless the river rise 15 or 16 cubits, it does not overflow the land. —Herodotus, II. 13. See nilometer. The mean annual discharg
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
d hope, and then they will be wretchedly hungry, as much as to say, If God shall some day see fit not to grant the Greeks rain, but shall afflict them with a long drought, the Greeks will be swept away by a famine, since they have nothing to rely on but rain from Jove, and have no other resource for water. — Herodotus, II.13. Wilkinson, very unreasonably as it would appear, combats the idea of Herodotus, and states that the rise at Memphis has always averaged about 16 cubits; say 40 at Assouan, 36 at Thebes, 25 at Cairo, and 4 at the mouth of the river. See Wilkinson's Herodotus, Am. ed., 2d Vol., pp. 252 – 254. In the time of Pliny 12 cubits were a famine, 13 a scarcity, 15 was safety, 16 plenty. At the present day, 18 cubits is the lowest, and at this hight the canals are cut and distribution commences; 19 cubits are tolerable, 20 adequate, 21 excellent, 22 abundant, and 24 ruinous, as invading the houses and stores of the country. The nilometer at Cairo has been erecte