. The mastery of water. THE KILE VALLEY AND DAM. 8—(927) 74 THE MASTERY OF WATER. and the nature and level of the surrounding land mustalso be known. So, accompanied by one Nubian servant,Mr. Willcocks spent three years in a close and accuratestudy of the Nile and its valley. The problem that had to be solved was the irrigationof 30,000 acres of Middle Egypt and the Fayoum District^south of Cairo, which was unaffected by the Deltabarrage. It Was recommended that a barrage shouldbe constructed at Assiout, the capital of Upper Egypt,where the river narrows down to half-a-mile in above
. The mastery of water. THE KILE VALLEY AND DAM. 8—(927) 74 THE MASTERY OF WATER. and the nature and level of the surrounding land mustalso be known. So, accompanied by one Nubian servant,Mr. Willcocks spent three years in a close and accuratestudy of the Nile and its valley. The problem that had to be solved was the irrigationof 30,000 acres of Middle Egypt and the Fayoum District^south of Cairo, which was unaffected by the Deltabarrage. It Was recommended that a barrage shouldbe constructed at Assiout, the capital of Upper Egypt,where the river narrows down to half-a-mile in above this point water was admitted to the IbrahimCanal, which runs for 2C0 miles through the land thatrequires to be watered. The main flood was not to beheld back solely at Assiout, but also at Assouan, 350miles farther up, where the river rushes over a rocky bedwith granite cliffs on each side. At this point thestream is broken up by a number of rocky islands, pastwhich it flows at the rate of sixteen miles an hour,form
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