Letters on Egypt: Containing a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, Its Commerce, Agriculture, Government and Religion, with the Descent of Louis IX at Damieta, Extracted from Joinville and Arabian Authors, Volume 1G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787 |
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... canals , which with their ftreams brought fertility , are dried up : and the earth ceafing to be watered , and continually expofed to the burning heats of the fun , is become a barren fand . Scattered over the plains which formerly ...
... canals , which with their ftreams brought fertility , are dried up : and the earth ceafing to be watered , and continually expofed to the burning heats of the fun , is become a barren fand . Scattered over the plains which formerly ...
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... times in which the Egyptians , sub- ( k ) Diodorus Siculus , p . 24 . ( 1 ) Herodotus , Strabo , and Diodorus Siculus re- late the opinion of the Ethiopians on this fubject . jected 1 jected to religion and laws , dug canals ; to 10 ...
... times in which the Egyptians , sub- ( k ) Diodorus Siculus , p . 24 . ( 1 ) Herodotus , Strabo , and Diodorus Siculus re- late the opinion of the Ethiopians on this fubject . jected 1 jected to religion and laws , dug canals ; to 10 ...
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... canals ; to give the ftagnant waters of the Nile vent ; raised high mounds , to oppofe its ravages ; and , weary of inhabiting rocky caverns , built cities , on hills thrown up by art , or nature . Boundaries were then prescribed to the ...
... canals ; to give the ftagnant waters of the Nile vent ; raised high mounds , to oppofe its ravages ; and , weary of inhabiting rocky caverns , built cities , on hills thrown up by art , or nature . Boundaries were then prescribed to the ...
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... canal of Menouf . The river , though full to the brim in the great branches of Rofetta and Damietta , and those which run through the interior parts of the coun- try , only overflowed the land where it lay low , or where banks had been ...
... canal of Menouf . The river , though full to the brim in the great branches of Rofetta and Damietta , and those which run through the interior parts of the coun- try , only overflowed the land where it lay low , or where banks had been ...
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... the Lake Mareotis joined the fea , and formed a bay , During the five hundred years which elapfed between the time of Homer and the foundation of Alexandria , canals and traced the limits of a great city , to 22 LETTERS.
... the Lake Mareotis joined the fea , and formed a bay , During the five hundred years which elapfed between the time of Homer and the foundation of Alexandria , canals and traced the limits of a great city , to 22 LETTERS.
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