Vlll CONTENTS. 



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 The Twelve Months, and the Three Seasons - - l^ 



Intercalation. Sothic Period - - - - 15 



Sothic Year. Thoth the Name of the first Month. The 

 early Intercalation of the Five Days. The Quarter Day. 

 Doubts respecting its first Adoption - - - 16 



Flocks and Herds, Breed of Horses, Wool. Egypt united 

 the Advantages of an Agricultural and Manufacturing 

 Country. Export of Linen - - - - 20 



Manufactures. Important Discoveries arising from their 



Agricultural Pursuits - - - - - 21 



Their Style of Building. Excavations under Ground. 



Temples not imitated from excavated Monuments - 22 



Abundance of Grain. Export. Many sold their Corn, 



and lived on Doura Bread, — Esculent Roots - - 23 

 Three and Four Crops a Year. Profit to Government on 

 Exportation of Corn. Egyptian Land Measures. The 

 Aroura, Schcene, Cubit, Stade - - - 24 



Plethrum. Measurements of the Pyramid, by Herodotus 



and others, uncertain - - - - - 25 



The Cubit, supposed to vary at different Periods - 27 



The Cubit appears to have been always of the same Length 28 

 Cubit of the Nilometer at Elephantine. Wooden Cubit of 



M, Jomard. Division of the Cubit - - - 29 



M. Jomard's Calculations. Cubit of the Nilometer of Ele- 

 phantine rudely divided - - - - 31 

 Royal Cubit. Double Cubit recently found at Thebes - 32 

 The Aroura, how divided. Modern Fedddn. The Stade of 



uncertain Length - - - - - 33 



Cultivation of the Land. Governors of Provinces. The 



Peasants sowed what Crops they chose - - 34 



Rented Land from the Rich. Water of the Inundation 



managed differently, according to Circumstances - 35 



Canals. Agricultural Scenes in the Sculptures - - 36 



Subsiding of the Nile. The Nile rises now as high as for- 

 merly, vai'ying in different Years - - - 37 

 The Land sowed as soon as the Water had retired. Some- 

 times previously prepared by the Plough and Hoe, some- 

 times only dragged with Bushes, or the Seed trodden in 

 by Animals - - - - - - 39 



