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try, to the 
valHes. 
AFSICAK BIVESt. 
end that the water may 
be 
The Nile has one peculiar Characteristic. 
li*! 
being supplied by rivulets, the ground is lovvi^t .jj 
banks ; but as not any water flows into the Nil‘* 
sage through Egypt, and as it is necessary that 
should overflow the land, the country is geneia*- 
a distance from, than near to it ; and, in rnost ijolj 
land has a gradual descent from the river to the 
hills,' which terminate the sandy plains most bet’ i 
the irrigation. 
Among other remarkable appearances, the^^ ^ ,,,i 
appearances, 
Bruce notices a very singular one attendant ou 
tion of tlie Nile. In Abyssinia, the early part 
the '■/ 
mg is constantly clear in that season, -with a h>’® jji/) 
About nine, a small cloud, not above four feet J 
breadth, appears in the east, whirling violently ^ 
on an axis j but, having approached nearly to 1 1 ^ 
first abates its motion, and then loses its ^ 
itself' greatly, and seeming to call up vapours it jit^ 
Opposite quarters. The clouds thus formed y 
nearly tlie same height, rush against each othst^^^.jjip? 
violence, and remind the spectator of Elisha 
on Mount Carmel. The air being impelled 
heaviest mass, or swiftest mover, makes an 
its form on the collection of clouds opposite; ‘ 
inent it has taken possession of the space 
it, the most violent thunder possible to be 
instantly, attended by rain. After some hours 
clears, with a wind at north ; and it is always 
Clears, wiin a wniu au iioiui ; auu lu is jjra 
cold when the thermometer is below sixty-th’’, 
Doctor Clarke, in his travels, draws 
foe 
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elegant picture of this most interesting 
“ Here we were unexpectedly greeted 
ing view of the Nile, tlie Delta, and the nui ^ ^ # 
in the neishbourhood of Rosetta. The -se<l ,i/ 
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description. The sudden contrast it offers, 
desert we had traversed, the display of rr ^ 
dance poured forth by the fertility of tliis yiC 
with all the local circumstances of reflection 
ottensive prospect of the Nile, and of the tliv’ 
rendei- it one of the most interesting sight* ‘ 
