. A dictionary of the Bible .. . rable danger to the navigators. Wilkinson(Anc. Aegypt. ii. 96, ed. 1854) says that the rightof growing and seUing the papyrus plants belongedto the government, who made a profit by its mono- Rameses IV., about 1200, certainly after the latestdate of the Exodus, is a fatal objection to an Identificationwith the Israelites. r^ |. Densi frutices, arundinetum, palus. (Freytag.) 1020 REED poly, and thinlcs other species of the Cyperaceaemust be understood as atlbrding all the variousarticles, such as baskets, canoes, sails, saudals, &c.,which hare been said to
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . rable danger to the navigators. Wilkinson(Anc. Aegypt. ii. 96, ed. 1854) says that the rightof growing and seUing the papyrus plants belongedto the government, who made a profit by its mono- Rameses IV., about 1200, certainly after the latestdate of the Exodus, is a fatal objection to an Identificationwith the Israelites. r^ |. Densi frutices, arundinetum, palus. (Freytag.) 1020 REED poly, and thinlcs other species of the Cyperaceaemust be understood as atlbrding all the variousarticles, such as baskets, canoes, sails, saudals, &c.,which hare been said to have been made from thereal papyrus. Considering that Egypt abounds inCyperaceae, many kinds of wliich might haveserved for forming canoes, &c., it is improbablethat the papyrus alone should have been used forsuch a purpose ; but that the true papyrus was usedfor boats there can be no doubt, if the testimony ofTheophrastus {Hist. Fl. iv. 8, §4), Pliny (H. 11), Plutarch and other ancient wiiters, is tobe hapyrtLS antiq^ Fiom the soft cellular portion of the stem theancient material called papyrus was , says Sir G. Wilkinson, are of themost remote Pharaonic periods. The mode ofmaking them was as follows: the interior of thestalks of the plant, after the rind had been removed,was cut into thin slices in the direction of theirlength, and these being laid on a flat board insuccession, similar slices were placed over themat right angjles, and their surfaces being cementedtogether by a sort of glue, and subjected to aproper degree of pressure and well dried, thepapyrus was completed ; the length of the slicesdepended of course on the breadth of the intendedsheet, as that of the sheet on the number ofslices placed in succession beside each other, sothat though the breadth was limited the papyrusmight be extended to an indefinite length.[Writing.] The papyrus reed is not now foundin Egypt; it grows, however, in Syria. Dr. Hookersaw it ou the banks of Lake T
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