. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . The Sphinx and Pyramids of Memphis. a marsh reclaimed by the dike of Menes anddrained by his artificial lake. The dike of Menesbegan twelve miles south of Memphis, and deflectedthe main channel of the river about two miles tothe eastward. Upon the rise of the Nile, a canalstill conducted a portion of its waters westwardthrough the old channel, thus irrigating the plainbeyond the city in that direction, while an inunda-tion was guarded against on that side by a largeartificial lake or reservoir at Abousir. The skill inengineering which these works req
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . The Sphinx and Pyramids of Memphis. a marsh reclaimed by the dike of Menes anddrained by his artificial lake. The dike of Menesbegan twelve miles south of Memphis, and deflectedthe main channel of the river about two miles tothe eastward. Upon the rise of the Nile, a canalstill conducted a portion of its waters westwardthrough the old channel, thus irrigating the plainbeyond the city in that direction, while an inunda-tion was guarded against on that side by a largeartificial lake or reservoir at Abousir. The skill inengineering which these works required, and whichtheir remains still indicate, argues a high degree ofmaterial civilization, at least in the mechanic arts,in the earliest known period of Egyptian climate of Memphis may be inferred from thatof the modern Cairo—about ten miles to the N.—which is the most equable that Egypt affords. Thecity is said to have had a circumference of aboutnineteen miles, and the houses or inhabited quar-ters, as was usual in the g
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