. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . M E D. I ThuJUer del* rendering the marshes salubrious and of digging canals, which had been sosuccessful in the Nile Valley, was less efficacious in the Delta, and proceededmore slowly. Here the embankments were not supported by a mountain chain :they were continued at random across the marshes, cut at every turn to admitthe waters of a canal or of an arm of the river. The waters left their usualbed at the least disturbing influence, and made a fresh course for themselvesacross country. If the inundation were delayed, the soft and badly drained
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . M E D. I ThuJUer del* rendering the marshes salubrious and of digging canals, which had been sosuccessful in the Nile Valley, was less efficacious in the Delta, and proceededmore slowly. Here the embankments were not supported by a mountain chain :they were continued at random across the marshes, cut at every turn to admitthe waters of a canal or of an arm of the river. The waters left their usualbed at the least disturbing influence, and made a fresh course for themselvesacross country. If the inundation were delayed, the soft and badly drained soilagain became a slough : should it last but a few weeks longer than usual, the 7G THE NILE AND EGYPT. work of several generations was for a long time undone. The Delta ofone epoch rarely presented the same aspect as that of previous periods, andNorthern Egypt never became as fully mistress of her soil as the Egypt ofthe These first principalities, however small they appear to us, were yet toolarge to remain undivided. In those times of slo
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