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H. is quite right in his description of the way in which a boat is towed up the first cataract—‘from both sides’ (δια-; ἀμφοτέρωθεν is really superfluous); he does not give the exaggerated difficulties which later writers ascribe to the cataracts, e.g. that the dwellers around were permanently deaf from the noise (Cicero, Som. Scip. 5). ‘The foaming rapids of the Great Cataract are now things of the past’ (Baedeker, p. 335), owing to the Nile Dam built just above.

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