. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . M. J. Leonhardus Leszius, et respondens Jo. Bartholomews Lenzius, Marco-breitha-Franci, d. 24 Decembr., hdcxcix. In auditorio Minori. Witlebergx, Typis ChristiansSchrxdteri, Acad. Typis. 4 Seneca, Quxst. Natural, ii. § 2. 12 THE NILE AND EGYPT. Beyond Elephantine are cliffs and sandy beaches, chains of blackened roches moutonnées marking out the beds of the currents, and fantastic reefs,sometimes bare, and sometimes veiled by long grasses and climbing plants, inwhich thousands of birds have made their nests. There are islets, too, occasion-ally
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . M. J. Leonhardus Leszius, et respondens Jo. Bartholomews Lenzius, Marco-breitha-Franci, d. 24 Decembr., hdcxcix. In auditorio Minori. Witlebergx, Typis ChristiansSchrxdteri, Acad. Typis. 4 Seneca, Quxst. Natural, ii. § 2. 12 THE NILE AND EGYPT. Beyond Elephantine are cliffs and sandy beaches, chains of blackened roches moutonnées marking out the beds of the currents, and fantastic reefs,sometimes bare, and sometimes veiled by long grasses and climbing plants, inwhich thousands of birds have made their nests. There are islets, too, occasion-ally large enough to have once supported something of a population, such asAmerade, Salûg, Sehêl. The granite threshold of Nubia is broken beyondSehêl, but its debris, massed in disorder against the right bank, still seem todispute the passage of the waters, dashing turbulently and roaring as they flowalong through tortuous channels, where every streamlet is broken up intosmall cascades. The channel running by the left bank is always ENTRANCE TO NC13IA. During the inundation, the rocks and sandbanks of the right side are com-pletely under water, and their presence is only betrayed by eddies. But onthe rivers reaching its lowest point a fall of some six feet is established,and there big boats, hugging the shore, are hauled up by means of ropes,or easily drift down with the All kinds of granite are foundtogether in this corner of Africa. There are the pink and red Syenites,porphyritic granite, yellow granite, grey granite, both black granite andwhite, and granites veined with black and veined with As soon asthese disappear behind us, various sandstones begin to crop up, allied to thecoarsest calcaire grossier. The hills bristle with small split blocks, withpeaks half overturned, with rough and denuded mounds. League beyond 1 View taken from the southern point of the island of Philœ. From a photograph by EmitBrugsch-Bey. 2 For a detailed description
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