THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, 693 
Wuen the river has rifen on the Mikeas eight pecks ‘and 
23 digits, they then call Wabad am erba Tufh, i.e. one from 14, 
five peeks of water being left marked in the Mikeas, but 
only eight of augmentation that has rifen upon the columa, 
according to the divifions, which make in all 13 peeks and 
23 digits, which wants one from being nine of augmenta- 
tion, and that being added, they cry Wo/aa Ullah, which: ob- 
liges the country to the payment of the meery. Again, 
fuppofe 17 peeks, or cubits, and 23 digits to ftand on the 
column, the cry 1s Wabad am temen Tu/b, i.e. one from 18, and, 
upon this being filled, and the divifions complete by a cer- 
tain day in Auguft, the next is d/barcen, 20, or, men Fibbel, alla 
- Yibbel, from Mountain to mountain, that is, 18 peeks mark- 
ed on the pillar, and two unmarked at the foot of it, fup- 
pofed to be covered with mud. All the land of Egypt is 
then fitted for cultivation; the great canal at Manfoura, 
and feveral others, are opened, which convey the water ine 
to the defert, and hinder any further ftagnation on the fields, 
though there is flill a great part of the water to come from. 
Fiiiopia, but which would not drain foon enough to fit 
the land for tillage, were the inundation fuffered to go 
on.. 
Now, from thefe 16 peeks the Wafaa Ullah if we deduce 
s, which were in the well, and marked on the column when 
the crier began, there will have been but 1: peeks of rife 
as a.minimum, which ftill made the meery due, or rs, de- 
ducing 5 from 20, the maximum, men Fibbel, alla Fibbel, the 
increafe that fits all Feypt for cultivation, after which is lof3 
and danger. Therefore, fuppofe the 16 peeks on the medal 
of Hadrian to have been the minimum or fifcal term, we 
moult imfer, that the fame quantity of inundation produced 
the 
