[Marginal date B.C. 885.] (3) "And it came to pass at the 

 seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the 

 Philistines ; and she went forth to cry unto the King for her house 

 and for her land." 



This drought occurred in Samaria, the marginal dates 

 B.O. 891 and B.O. 885 fix the time of its beginning and end 

 very clearly. It will be seen to have occurred exactly 

 nineteen years after Elijah's drought in B.C. 910, and is 

 sixteen cycles of 171 years before A.D. 1845. The diagram 

 shows that the Nile curve, after reaching a low point in 

 the trough of the curve in A.D. 1845, was on an upward 

 gradient to A.D. 1851, which denotes good seasons in Egypt, 

 owing to the Nile being above the mean, excepting 1850, 

 while drought existed in Samaria. 



It will be noticed that Dr. Livingstone experienced 

 drought in South Africa during this period, when there 

 were good rains above the average on the Abyssinian 

 plateau, which were responsible for the continued rise of 

 the Nile. Chonuane in South Africa, where Dr. Livingstone's 

 drought occurred, is in about the same distance south of 

 Abyssinia that Samaria is north of it, so it is quite prob- 

 able that similar meteorological conditions would exist at 

 the two places at the same time, seeing that Abyssinia is 

 close to the equator. 



The year A.D. 1845, (which is 57 years before A.D. 1902 

 when intense drought was experienced almost everywhere 

 in the southern hemisphere) was evidently a critical one, 

 as may be realised on comparing its position on the diagram 

 with the curves of Adelaide, Horsham, Sydney, etc, and 

 also the Nile. 



The long drought and desolation described inj the Prophets 

 Jeremiah and Ezekiel, commencing in B.C. 012, and 

 ending B.C. 54i) :— 



The most remarkable confirmation of the truth of the 

 Nile curve as shown in the diagram, and the proof that its 



