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1 The Greek equivalents for Amun and Osiris.
2 Herodotus' account of the Nile in this chapter is for the most part vague and untrustworthy. He is right as to the current above Elephantine, as those who have made the passage between the Assuan Dam and Assuan will realize. But the conditions have of course been entirely altered by the construction of the dam.
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