hy the Mud of the Nile. 4.T 



where they are not, in fome way or other^ watered and re- 

 freflied, they muft of Courfe be barren and incapable of yield- 

 ing any proper Crop or Produce. This we have confirmed by 

 Straho ' , who, in defcribing the Courfe of the Nile, from Ethio- 

 pa to Egypt, tells us, that all thofe Tarts were inhabited, 

 which were oiierflowedhy the Nile \ hut where the Lands were 

 too high or lay out of the Reach of the Inundation, there they 

 were barren and uninhabited, for want of Water. Neither 

 am 1 fpeaking of what may be done, by artificial Means and 

 Contrivances, fuch as Strabo ' may be fuppofed to defcribe in 

 the Time oiTetronius ; fuch likewife as are, atprefent, made 

 ufe of in the U-pper Egypt. I am fpeaking of the Confequences, 

 which, without thefe Affiftances, muft naturally attend a Coun- 

 try , that is deftitute of all manner of Refrefliment, from 

 Showers or Inundations: fuch, as this Author acknowledges the 

 Upper Egypt to be, at this Time. For it is found to be a Matter 

 of Fa6l, that the greateft Part of the Upper Egypt, lying too 

 high to be regularly overflowed by the Nile, is able to produce 

 little or nothing at all for the Suftenance of Mankind ; except 

 fuch Portions of it, as are kept conftantly watered, (asHehim- 

 felf has obferved,) by the immenfe Labour and Contrivance 

 of the Inhabitants. 



As then it is agreed by us both', that all Egypt is or has ^T'" ^^^^'' 



° ■' ' • -KT- in Procels ot 



been, at one Time or other, the gradual Gift of ihQNile, this Time, may 



. be ia the 



Hypothefis, which I maintain, fuppofes no other Change and 'ame condi- 

 Alteration to happen, inProcefs of Time, to the Plains about t//'?^''-- 

 Memphis and the Lower Egypt, than what have already hap- 

 pened to t\\QUpper^\ agreeably to it's higher Antiquity, and 

 the longer Courfe of Ages, that the Nile has been beftowing 



1 Ko;vst |/iv >xp ma 19 -nunn t? '^[<f' 19 tm mM^ytt tj, vmf ixnh th "tuv Ai^'oTmv Nh^®* '^jtjwwi^fy, 



fuiei-oi, TO cfl' uTnfJ^^iov ;yo (JLina^Ti^Y 7S \tM[Jia.Tii! mv, a.oi>umf lij^TipaSif iflf^iav j^ ioxfMV 2i|# nv ajjjtiv ivv- 

 JfisLv. Str.ih. Geog. J.i/. p.5'41. Can che Meadow (TIN) grow without Water ? Job. 8. 11. 



2 'H J^ 'sfeJ 7TV -m-m^ov rss^yfMneitt 2i|ie^epf< TomJiWy any t!i Shfrn^-iia. vm^r 7»v ifvm. *ure< y) Ti^eioyn 



7H)^^I£«/f, It) "^ ?uc75!i)f i^iT-yuiny ^hd'Trint, efi 1^ xara Ta,< eAetT]«f a,vaici(m> Toya/^Tn/ 'srov&iticu yxy, 'iny h 

 Titlf iA<'/i,(n, zlg. 7t [tw] Tat Jia^iy^v, 1^ -Tuy mi^^/MTay. 'Bot yvy lav isr^j rijTfapjs pj^ovay « jUs^Jst) f/9|U 



tKCift Ji kp^afT®' >} yj^'M, )i) cf^JiKa (Jiovoy xKn^dimtTQ' OTtp^Hf 7S HtiM f/£Tf», fayTU h « fop't' 1^ ixia'TriiTt 

 (uvov i!A»pt)!ra>7@-, A/f/a iAls ii'<S?7o. Strab. 1. 17. p. J42. 



3 See the Qu^otations, from this Author, p. 44. 



4 This is even acknowledged, by the Author of the Df/?n/»fioH o/</^f £rf/. At that Time, 

 fays he, before the Cinals were made and when Lower Egypt was a Morafs, the Upper Parts of 

 Eg]pt might be ovcrflozi'cd and receive that Accefion of a rich Soil which makes it fo fruitful, p. 197. - 

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