. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . yplateau on which stand the Pyramids, and formeda wide gulf where now stretches plain beyond plainof the Delta. The last undulations of the Arabianhills, from Gebel Mokattam to Gebel Geneffeh, wereits boundaries on the east, while a sinuous and shallowchannel running between Africa and Asia united the 1 From a drawing by Boudier, after a photograph by the Dutch traveller Insinger, taken in 1864. * Herodotus, ii. 5 : earl Alymrrioiari iiriKrr]r6s re 77) /cat Sâpov tov iroraixov. The same expressionhas been attributed to Hecatœus of Miletus (Mulle
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . yplateau on which stand the Pyramids, and formeda wide gulf where now stretches plain beyond plainof the Delta. The last undulations of the Arabianhills, from Gebel Mokattam to Gebel Geneffeh, wereits boundaries on the east, while a sinuous and shallowchannel running between Africa and Asia united the 1 From a drawing by Boudier, after a photograph by the Dutch traveller Insinger, taken in 1864. * Herodotus, ii. 5 : earl Alymrrioiari iiriKrr]r6s re 77) /cat Sâpov tov iroraixov. The same expressionhas been attributed to Hecatœus of Miletus (Muller-Didot, Fragmenta Historicorum Grxcorum, p. 19, fragm. 279 ; cf. Diels, Hermes, vol. xxii. p. 423). It has often been observed that this phraseseems Egyptian on the face of it, and it certainly recalls such forms of expression as the following,taken from a formula frequently found on funerary stelre : All things created by heaven, given byearth, brought by the Nile from its mysterious sources. Nevertheless, up to the present time, the. 4 THE NILE AND EGYPT. Mediterranean to the Eed Westward, the littoral followed closely thecontour of the Libyan plateau ; but a long limestone spur broke away from itat about 31° N., and terminated in Cape Abûkî The alluvial deposits firstfilled up the depths of the bay, and then, under the influence of the currentswhich swept along its eastern coasts, accumulated behind that rampart of sand-hills whose remains are still to be seen near Benha. Thus was formed a minia- *ture Delta, whose structure pretty accurately corresponded with that of thegreat Delta of to-day. Here the Nile divided into three divergent streams,roughly coinciding with the southern courses of the Rosetta and Damiettabranches, and with the modern canal of Abû Meneggeh. The ceaseless accu-mulation of mud brought down by the river soon overpassed the first limits,and steadily encroached upon the sea until it was carried beyond the shelterfurnished by Cape A
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