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_ they made careful observations by fixed measures of the height of 
_ its inundation, extending over a long series of years, from which 
are peculiar to t. As the sun is extremely hot in this 
country, and rain falls very seldom in it, it is natural to suppose 
that the earth would soon be parched and the corn and pulse 
burnt up by so scorching a heat were it not for the canals and 
___Sesosiris, one of the most illustrious kings of antiquity, 
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pastures are and how fat the flocks and herds grow in a very 
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Who reigned in Egypt 1491 3.c., was renowned alike for his com 
the whole country, and it was finally completed 
Ptolemies. Irrigation canals are so numerous im 
scale, tha’ 
calculated only + of the water in the Nile which enters 
Mr. F 
, States that in the reign of the late Khedive (Ismail 
upwards of one hundred new canals, great and small, have 
e ted, and there are at present in the country no less 
756 hon-navigable canals, or such as are used solely for 
me 62 canals that are used both for irrigation and the 
of goods and produce, making a total in 1879 of 818 
~~ Out of a cultivated area of 44 million acres, 2,500, 
are thus provided with means for irrigati 
