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[3] In his time all of Egypt except the Thebaic1 district was a marsh: all the country that we now see was then covered by water, north of lake Moeris,2 which is seven days' journey up the river from the sea.

1 the southern part of Upper Egypt.

2 In the modern Fayyum, west of the Nile.

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