Ohfer nations in Egypt. 4.^^ 



Egyptians make great Rejoycings, and call out {Wafaa ^llah 

 >.ij\ \>- J God has given {\\\tvi\) all they wanted. At this Time 

 alfo is performed the Ceremony of Cutting the Nile , which 

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

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

 Kljalis, as they call the artificial Canal^ that runs through the 

 City of Kairo. 



This Khalis, which hath been obferved before to be the Lakes d,g ;« 

 Amnis Trajanus of the Antients, empties itfelf into The tr]^jfcn''tL 

 {Berque el Hadge) Lake of the Tilgrims, at twelve Miles Di- w^^^w/! ' 

 fiance to the Eaflward. The Lake of Myris \ the Mareotis 

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

 vances of the antient£^/^/i^« j^either to divert, or to carry ofFthe 

 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 fufficient to prepare the Land for Cultivation. 



Now as the Change of Seafons and the natural Courfe of ^/^^ Nile -&« 



_ amays aij- 



Things may be prefumed to have been always the fame, the^^"^^^^ ^^^ 



o ■/ t- J ■' fame ^hantity 



Nile, from the fettled State of Things after the Deluge, to tliis of water mta 

 Time, mufl have conftantly difcharged the fame Quantity 

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

 flows, being not only nourilhed and refrefhed by the River, but 

 even, as Herodotus {zys, 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 y where we now find 

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



•y^KfJut, ■mi/i^'iyt^i!-, laOf t-^ tw TA»pa>ff/i' qZ Trevaf/K, iQ£f?A)t/M«7®'> <Dgii •Pi >ri( &ti'f yris TnKfyjvf, ciK^mMcee 

 iyjiv Tzt^iv. h 3 Tav hhav fmuv navja^o^iv ii^u^t Miavhv fujaKu/ i(sf^ (itt^eiiw, 'ii to cnpoS'cfy tS Tnnafjti J^yjif/AVti, i^ 

 TmVTt liv r^ 7W TniKiv mnv Ti^n^uira., ottx Tv^afMt ){g.'nanMa<p), ^oxifM^v irroienw oJ^i'g^WTit. T)'lod. 1. 1, p. ?2. 



cvi^fj.tTeJaSi fJf vzinJhyJiv n TAsoi'ct^ovT®' uJk^Q/' a^u^i (Myris) im hiyinv. ** tw i^ii yl> ofeifMTfijf ewTtif ?«w 

 CmfyjHV sa/l'fflv itf^hiay it; i^<iM7iav, n ^ ^a.^Qr' Iv joti T^ff'sB/? ftepsa/i' Ifyuiav 'nvnltMvm, D'tod. 1. 1, p. 27. 



2 Buffif.cZjcti Ji 'S/'Mnv AiyJTijv i.y^ti7im iMyov Mwctf. iH nn, tAiIi' n ©uSaVjiS voiM, 'TTAmv AiyuTiioy Sveu 

 e^@'. >(si^ ojjTtis Mcu iJiy v'Trmyjiy im vZy o/VtfSt AijuiiJif ^ Mee/®' llymy h tw a.yi.nth'n iira Si^hdojus I'Trm 

 if/.fp£aiv tH diva. TV? TntTtjMV. * </i)Aot y5 >t) pi ib^hmwojiv, iJ'oi'TJ /t', of T/f >« <}\m<ity ep^«, 077 A/).J?3@'j \t 

 ■tm EWiM'sf rau7J?Aox7iu, e^ Ai}i/'^ioiji ^kjmJU 71 yi, )^ JZ^y n TTOTnjuK. Herod. Eut. 5- 4) ?• Vid. 

 D'lod. S'tcul. 1. 3. in principio. <^a<r) Ji (A/S-ioTref) k^ jh AiyvjU'ms "iiniMS laxiiZy um,fX"'> O^ietiQi' 

 i)y>i3-a.[xu>i <} ^iiiiai. );?0oA8 y6 iriy yZv %7<ui Aiyj-JHa* Kiyrsjiy i P(,<»p£Wi «t»v* ^iharliu ytyonvtu K.«7a TW f| 

 afyii( n wij;u» tn^iriv. u<^£^y (JuyToi n ytiht itaTa las kyaCajiM im Ia tw A/9/oOTtf{ lAw x.aTtufi^vlfQ', ex n. 

 Koi' oKiyoY la^oyauwat. otj ^' SJic aii-iay « yjii* Tmcm •TTOTa/iwj^sf®' IvAfyi^jiiv iyMV ^sfef/r thi" yirofuyw 

 jcotTO tkV kfoA^f tS vfi'A«. xa9' extfSBi' ;S 67®* ttf< v'iiu (Au®- i,^£yi^ofiiy)i{ <a^t to, '^fJM-m n OTva/xS, xadopctT«< 

 71 jt/-V TAhayQf i^ai^ifiivoy tas <E!0<jytifjija.7iVi « 3 X^S" ■'^'"' «"'^'"'<'' f^tjj.Ceinia-A. D'tod. Sic. Lib. 3. p.IOl, 

 A/jutSW » X'^'?* "*"'' ^>oi'iia fcuytiju ij miaa. tS TruTOfiS «{>ov. Arift. Meteorol. 1. I. cap. 14. 



3 Nafcuntur enim terras nee fluminum tantum invedu, ficut Echimdes infulx ab Acheloa 

 amne congefta: : majorque pars JEg)pti a Nilo, in quam a P/;a»-o infula nodis & diei curfum 

 fuifl'e /^<)?Bfro credimus} fed & recelTu maris, ficut eidem de Ciueijs. Plhi. Hift, Nar. 



u.cap.8^ Sffff the 



