MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 



OF THE 



ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. 



■""^-yik. 



Vignette K. Machine used as a harrow after the land is ploughed. 

 Heliopolis— Cairo in the distance. 



CHAPTER XL 



Richness of Egypt. — An Agricultural and Manufacturing 

 Country. — Origin of Mensuration and Geometry. — As- 

 tronomical Calcidations connected loith the Rise of the Nile. 



— Year of 865 Days. — Sothic Year of 365^ Days. — 

 Flocks. — Sheep kept for their Wool. — Former Advantages 

 of Fgypt in Mamfactures. — Abundance of Produce. — 

 Land Measures. — Weights. — Irrigation. — The Inun- 

 dation. — Mode of cultivating the Land. — Plough. — Hoe. 



— Swine and Cattle to tread in the Seed, — Solving. — Soil 

 of Egypt. — The Nile, its Branches. — Dressing of Lands. 



— Different Cropjs. — Cidtivation of Wheat, gathering the 

 Corn, and threshing. — Inundation. — Different Levels of 

 ^9ypt- — Edge of Desert cultivated. — Harvest Home and 

 other Festivals of the Peasants. — Care of Animals, Vete- 

 rinary Art. — Eggs hatched by artificial Means. 



In a country like Egypt, whose principal riches 

 consist in the friiitfulness of its soil, it is reason- 



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