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Inquiry about the Poffibility of changing the Courfe of the Nile—Caufe of 
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I T has been thought a seeblein that merited to be confider- 
ed, Whether it was poflible to turn the current of the Nile’ 
into the Red Sea, and thereby to famifh Egypt? T think the’ 
queftion fhould more properly be, Whether the» water of the’ 
Nile, running into Egypt, could be fo diminifhed, or divert- 
ed, that it fhould never be fufficient to prepare that country’ 
for annual cultivation? Now to this it is anfwered, That ) 
there feems to be no doubt but that it is poflible, becaufe 
_ the Nile, and all the rivers that run into it, and all the rains 
that {well thofe rivers, fall in a country fully two miles a- 
bove the level of the fea; therefore, it cannot be denied, that 
there is level enough to divert many of the rivers into the 
Red Sea, the Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, or, perhaps, full 
eaficr, by turning the courfe of the river Abiad till it meets 
the level of the Niger, or pats auonee the defert into the 
Mediterranean. 
3 LALIZALA, 
