. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . the ordinary springs and wells would not have been sufficient to supply Péninsule Arabique et lEgypte moyenne, Ins. hier., pl. 1, No. 1 : Lepsius, Denkm., ii. 5 ; Birch, in the-Account of the Survey, p. 171. 1 The description of the Egyptian ruins and of the turquoise mines in their neighbourhood istaken from J. Keast Lord, The Peninsula of Sinai (in the Leisure Hour, 1870), of which M. Chabaslias already felicitously made use in his Recherches sur lAntiquité historique, 2nd edit., pp. 34S-:JG:) ;an analogous description is found in
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . the ordinary springs and wells would not have been sufficient to supply Péninsule Arabique et lEgypte moyenne, Ins. hier., pl. 1, No. 1 : Lepsius, Denkm., ii. 5 ; Birch, in the-Account of the Survey, p. 171. 1 The description of the Egyptian ruins and of the turquoise mines in their neighbourhood istaken from J. Keast Lord, The Peninsula of Sinai (in the Leisure Hour, 1870), of which M. Chabaslias already felicitously made use in his Recherches sur lAntiquité historique, 2nd edit., pp. 34S-:JG:) ;an analogous description is found in the Account of the Survey, pp. 222-224. A short and rather in-exact account of them is to be found in J. de Morgan, Recherches sur les Origines de lEgypte, pp. 218, 299. a Brugsch, Religion und Mythologie der Alten JEgypier, pp. 567, 568; Hâît-Qaît is again mentionedin the Ptolemaic times, in Dumichen, Geographische Inschriften, vol. iii. pi. li. 3 riun made by Thuillier, from the sketcj by Brugsch, Wanderung nach den Turhis-Miueu,.p. THE MINING WORKS OF WADY TEE MINING WORKS OF TEE PEAR A OES. 357 the needs of the colony, they had transformed the bottom of the valley intoan artificial lake. A dam thrown across it prevented the escape of thewaters, which filled the reservoir more or less completely according to theseason. It never became empty, and several species of shellfish flourishedin it—among others, a kind of large mussel which the inhabitants generallyused as food, which with dates, milk, oil, coarse bread, a few vegetables, andfrom time to time a fowl or a joint of meat, made up their scanty fare. Other
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