Ohfervations in Egypt. φ^γ 



Egyptians make great Rejoycings, and call out {Wafaa y4llah 

 ^\)\\.i._^) God has given {x.h>^.m) all thejf wanted. At this Time 

 alfo is performed the Ceremony of Cutting the Nile, which 

 is the breaking down a Bank of Earth, raifed at the Begin- 

 ning of the Increafe, and thereby admitting tha River into a 

 Kbalis, as they call the artificial Canal, that runs through the 

 City of Katro. 



This Khalis, which hath been obferved before to be xh^T-^hcs d.g-.n 

 ylmnis Traja?ms of the Antients, empties itfelf into ΤΐοβίΓι^Ι^Ζ 

 {Berque el Hadge) Lale of the Tilgrims, at twelve Miles Όι-ϊΖΙίί^' 

 itance to the Eaftward. The Lake of J^m', the Mareotis 

 and others of the fame Kind, feem to have been the like Contri- 

 vances of the antient£^/^/i^^?i,either to divert, or to carry oif the 

 Superfluity of Water, which, in the earlier Ages, when there 

 was a lefs Extent and Height of Soil, muft have frequently 

 broke down their Mounds; and would have always been more 

 than fuificient to prepare the Land for Cultivation. 



Now as the Change of Seafons and the natural Courfe of r^^ Nile ^^r 

 Things may be prefumed to have been always the fame, the ^.-^'^^^g^^'^ the 

 Nile, from the fettled State of Things after the Deluge, to this tf'walTilL• 

 Time, muft have conftantly difcharged the fame Quantity 

 of Water into the Sea. But the Country, which it now over- 

 flows, being not only nouriihed and refreflied by the River, but 

 even, as Herodotus' {-x^'i, it's very Gift, a great Variety of Changes 

 and Alterations muft have been all the while incident to it. 

 Whilft therefore the Lower Part of Egypt, where we now find 

 the 'Delta \ may be fuppofed to have been a large Gulph of 



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 TTzLv-Tzt Toi/ «Λϋ 7>!)' THihiv τττπν -τ^νξβίοΛ-, 0^» TcyjiiiMt <itTS5-Jic.uas5, ^ϋχιμΛην iTra'tmh ό^ι-^^τ^τα. L)iod. J. I. p. 22. 

 ETreiJiiV yj (j%• titthQ;' luy^ ωεισμίνοί (-joifmi τκ'ί ίναζά^ίκ, η D' Y«ga t»c lu>ig.fm!il' τια^ίσκζ/ύαζίν &j τ? fKcivs 

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 um'fyeiv tuJ'/aiv τεί^λιω/ tc, ίξακοα-ίων , τι '■$ (iaS®- ΰ' 7ot( -πκύςίΐί μίγίΐΐν l^yjiav τηντίικοντα. D'lod. 1. 1 . Ρ- ? ? . 



2 BaiTtKcZjai /ε i!sfa>nv AijvTOi Λν^άτιαν 'iKiyon Μηγ«, ^, ήη, "jKnv η QyCo'Ikv io/jI», -τίΛσΆν ^ι-^ύτ^ην meu 

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 7«!' Ελλ -ivii• νΛυ-π>λοντα/, οςί AoWic/ri iHirnjii τϊ >«, )^ <βζρ]ΐ η τητυ.μν. HcTod. Eut. 5• 4> Γ Vid, 

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 καΙ oMyov OCs^yja^nvai. otj ^ 'f^tv txnuv η χ«ί< ικία r!r>-maiyagQr ΙνΑ^γίςά,Ίην tyav 'imiiki'ir i>iv γιϊομίνκψ 

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 τι μ^ T^hayOr Ιζ^ω^ίμίνον τϋ; <!ΐζ$σχωμασιν, » 5' χωζΛ τ»>• »ίξ«ΐΐν Καμζά,νχσΛ. Diod. S'iC. Lib. 3• p. ΙΟΙ. 

 Aiyjirliav » χω'ξΛ toto yiyovi^a iptuviiut ^ woo. τ5 τπηημΖ ίξy(ιv. Ατ'ΐβ. MetCOlol. J. I• Cap. I4. 



3 Naicuntur enim terrs nee fluminum tantuin invedu, ficut Ecbinadcs infulx ab Acbdoo 

 amne congcite : majorque pars JEgjpti a NUo, in quam a Pbaro infula nodis & diei curium 

 fuifl'c //uiwi-ro credimusj Ibd & receiTu maris, ficut eidem de Ckceijs. PUii. Hift. Nat. 



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