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as those we can see to-day in Nubia, Egypt was better protected 
from innundation, and the Nile better trained, than it is to-day. And 
yet we have many advantages which no Pharaoh possessed. By the 
aid of telegraphy we have knowledge of a comming flood a full fifteen 
days before it arrives in the Delta ; the Khartoum gauge allows us 
to anticipate its very height. Meteorology is aiding us still further. 
In a paper I read at the Chicago International Exhibition I stated 
that years of heavy rainfall in India are years of high flood in Egypt, 
while years of poor rainfall in India are years of low flood in Egypt. 
Sir John Eliot, the Director General of the Meteorological Department 
of India, corrected this statement. He said that though this was 
not true of the Bengal monsoon, it was true of the Bombay monsoon. 
Years of heavy rainfall in Gujerat and Bombay are years of high 
flood on the Nile, and vice versa. As the rain falls in Bombay a 
month earlier than the Nile flood reaches Cairo, we have information 
of a high flood a month before it arrives, if we receive telegraphic 
information from Bombay. 
36. Complete project for water storage and flood pro- 
tection for Egypt. — The complete project for water storage and 
flood protection for Egypt as proposed by me, contemplates the following 
works : — 
Raising the Assuan reservoir (2 years) £ 500,000 
Wady Rayan reservoir (4 years).. „ 2,600,000 
Training the Rosetta branch . . . . „ 900,000 
Total £ 4,000,000 
To these have to be added the approximate estimates of the proposed 
works on the Upper Nile : — 
Regulator for Lake Albert (4 years) £ 800,000 
Dredging and training works in the Albert Nile and 
the Zeraf river (12 years) £ 1,200,000 
Total £ 2,000,000 
Grand total of works on the Upper and Lower Nile £ 6,000,000 
