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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 12 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Stern Chase. (search)
, Naucratis, on the Canopic branch, became the entrepot of all the trade between lower Egypt and the interior, even as far as Thebes, through the agency of the Etesian winds, which, blowing up the river for forty days every year, enabled vessels to overcome the rapidity of the current. From Thebes to Myos Hormus, on the Red Sea, merchandize was carried through the desert, on the backs of camels. In return, Greece received the silks of China, the ivory of India, and the spices of Arabia and Ceylon. From the remotest period an active commerce existed between Egyptian Thebes and the Mediterranean Sea, if we may place any confidence in Homer, who celebrates the wealth and grandeur of Thebes; but at that time the traffic was carried on by land. The station was originally the Great Oasis, now El Wah, afterwards the Oasis of Ammon, whence the labor of transportation was not difficult to places in the neighborhood of Lake Tritonis, we should judge, since from this quarter issued those imme