" 35. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become 

 like the garden of Eden ; and the waste and desolate and ruined 

 cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. 



B.C. 587 Ezekiel xxxvn, 1 - 14. The description of the 

 valley that was full of dry bones which were restored to life, 

 is typical of the restoration of the land and its inhabitants, 

 which had been desolated and destroyed by drought and 

 famine. 



B.C. 572. Ezekiel xxx. The desolation of Egypt is again 

 referred to, and mention is made again of the drought in (12). 



"And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the 

 hand of the wicked; and I will make the land waste, and all that 



On looking at the diagram, and remembering what has 

 already been said about the accuracy of the Biblical dates 

 covering the period of this drought, I think it will be 

 admitted that there are very good reasons for believing, 

 that the very long period during which the Nile was almost 

 continually below the average, denoting a protracted 

 drought over the Abyssinian table land, from 1782 to 1<S15 ? 

 was actually a recurrence of the drought which was 

 experienced in the days of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, namely, 

 from B.C. 612 to B.C. 549. The interval of time, 1782 + 

 612 = 2394 years, is exactly 14 cycles of 171 years. Although 

 there is nothing in either of the books of the Prophets to 

 show the actual fulfilment of the prediction, that the 

 drought would terminate 40 years after B.C. 589, or in B.C. 

 549, a study of the diagram will leave little doubt, but that 

 Hzekiel's prophecy was verified, if there is any truth in 

 periodicity. 



It will now be interesting to note that the following 

 droughts occurred in this particular part of the Nile's 

 curve. B.C. 612 to B.C. 549 = A.D. 1782 to A.D. 1845. 

 Isaac's drought in B.C. 1804 or seven cycles before B.C. 



