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C H A P. V. 



Some additional Proofs and Conjecfures, concerning the 

 Augmentation, "which Egypt receives annually from 

 the Nile. 



AS it may be fairly proved and colledled from the Quo- a great 

 tations which finifh the foregoing Chapter, that the wSTbroughf 

 City Memphis is fuppofed to have fuffered great Alterations mX? ^^^^^ 

 from the Nile ; the Conclulion and Hypothefis, which feems 

 naturally to flow from it, viz. that the Nile may likewife he flow 

 ifs Sediment upoji other Tlaces, fliould not furely have been 

 fo much oppofed and contraverted, as it has been by the former 

 of thofe Authors. For He allows, that the Nile, by over- 

 flowing this City, might hurj, or cover it over with Mud, a-s 

 if fuch a Tlace had never been. And, that the Mud of the 

 Nile is capable of bringing about fuch or greater Revolutions, 

 appears from the 'Depth of five Foot, which this Gentleman 

 tells us, (p. lOO.) is left hehind it every Tear in the Mikias. 

 Nay, the Quantity of Mud brought down by the Nile, appear- 

 ed to be fo very extraordinary to Herodotm ', that he fuppofes 

 the Red Sea, provided the Nile w^s turned into it, w^ould, in 

 the Space of twenty thoufand Years, be filled up by it. 



Now, if the Nile has the Property of lodging it's Sediment The NUe 

 in one Place, why may it not have the like Property of lodging verflows,iod" 

 it in others? And if the Nile has accumulated Soil at onefome^SeX 

 Time, why not fucceflively, even to this Day? And though "'^'^^" 

 the Soil annually lodged upon the Surface, in thefe latter Ages, 

 may, from fmaller Depths of the fl:agnating Water, be gra- 

 dually diminiftied; yet ftill, where the iVi/(? is admitted, and 

 of a fufficient Height to overflow, there fome Sediment wdll 

 always be left behind ; and confequently the Land muft be 

 always increafmg. When therefore the Nile, by thus raifing where the 

 and augmenting ifs Banks, (i. e. the whole Traa of Land it^Cw ^^^ 

 overflows,) is at length confined and colledled within it's ownJiu^^fg^'. 



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T El av tA'i £3tA»oH luifi-^, -ri lU^ipov o NwA®' if tStiv tbv 'A^diny Ko^mv, v {^V Kahlei '(coyiQf -nZn 

 y^aSHwcu hns yt iiff/jtveiar iTiav, Herod, p. 104. 



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