St| . THE KILE. S-^9 
afford It a passage. They are so close to each 
3 a bridge ofi-beams was once laid over them to 
S, to anarmy; and Sultan Segued built over 
'^g® of one arch, to construct which he procured 
.kjjom India. 
if®a'er part of Lower Egypt is contained in a tnan- 
C ^'^^oaed by the Mediterranean Sea, and the 
vQf — wu._in:s ui Liiv. ^ o 
'«NviK '^’®s below Old Cairo, flows on the one side to 
®ast, falling into the sea at Damietta ; wlnle the 
runs to the north-west, and enters the sea at 
,^hat is called the Delta, resembling the Greek 
branches of the Nile— which, dividing itself 
.S' 
name, and constituting a triangle, is thus 
"7 of ihe Nile is Uiick and muddy, more parti- 
itiXtW . file river is swollen by the heavy rams vvlnch 
'Within the tropics in the beginning of the 
'^fason, and which are doubtless the principal 
= of 
^ Overflowing tire low lands of Egypt. A similar 
in the Ganges has been noticed above ; and it 
^7^ WuK ..II J .1 : 1-,/nrii AitViPv tlipir ri<!P: nr 
V ■•“C iropics; uic/ .iiuiuai./ u....... ....... , 
for raany miles on each side, before Jhey 
•*» lilt. vjraLigca iiao , 
, .'With all the rivers which have either tlieir rise or 
tovpii)’® ’■^re tropics ; they annually break their bounds. 
It, 
nf likewise leave a prolific mnd, which, 
V,^*\vit,i Nile, fert'ilizes the land ; beside which, the 
w? l"'®vaiUng about the latter end of May, drive 
Y> itj from the sea, and keep back those of the 
^ ^ manner as considerably to assist the swell. 
and the Copts more espec'ially, are per 
such 
ana me i-^opis muic 
always begins to rise on the same day 
Cot ,7 as, indeed, it generally commences on the. 
■ 'a of June. Its rise was ob.served for three 
id it to ascend 
inches ; and it 
O the by Dr. Pococke, who found 
S '^aU[- rsl five days from five to ten in 
“(■'vh‘'^®ff rising till it had attained the height of nine 
the canal of Cairo was cut. It then rose Irons 
Ck 
« • ''ttticH U1 Wtia vwv. . 
\ Li^“^bes only in the day ; for, having spread 
and entered tlie canal, although more water 
uav'*’ entered tlie canal, although more waicr 
St«Xblp^ descended than before, its rise was less 
*L> av4 .V '^be other canals were now laid open at stated 
which water the lower grounds the last, 
are carried along the highest parts of the cnuiK 
