A second series of the Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, including their religion, agriculture, &cDerived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors . The two colossi of Thebes. ERRATA, ADDENDA, etc. Vol. I. Page 194. line 27., for strait, read straight. 208. note *, for supra, p. 3., read supra, p. line 13., after make, insert Pthah was worshipped withparticular honours at Memphis, and he held a distinguishedpost in the temples of all add, note on the name of the Phoenix, Vide infra, Vol. I
A second series of the Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, including their religion, agriculture, &cDerived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors . The two colossi of Thebes. ERRATA, ADDENDA, etc. Vol. I. Page 194. line 27., for strait, read straight. 208. note *, for supra, p. 3., read supra, p. line 13., after make, insert Pthah was worshipped withparticular honours at Memphis, and he held a distinguishedpost in the temples of all add, note on the name of the Phoenix, Vide infra, Vol. II. p. and 334., for Mellilot, read Melilot. 324, line 1., for Neph shows them, read Neph and Pthah show *them. And add as note*, At Philae, these two Gods aremoulding the clay of which Osiris was to be formed, whenhe visited the world in a human last line but 6., for Themophoria, read cut omitted, — the name of Aroeris or Hor-oeri; put into Con-tents, p. xxii. (q. V.)Plates 73. and 74. have been omitted, or rather transferred to anotherplace, and numbered 24a. and 26a. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. ?^ Vignette K. Machine used as a harrow after the land is — Cairo in the distance. CHAPTER XL Richness of Egypt. — An Agricultural and ManufacturingCountry. — Origin of Mensuration and Geometry. — As-tronomical Calcidations connected loith the Rise of the Nile. — Year of 865 Days. — Sothic Year of 365^ Days.—Flocks. — Sheep kept for their Wool. — Former Advantagesof Fgypt in Mamfactures. — Abundance of Produce. —Land Measures. — Weights. — Irrigation. — The Inun-dation. — Mode of cultivating the Land.—Plough. — Hoe. — Swine and Cattle to tread in the Seed, — Solving. — Soilof Egypt. — The Nile, its Branches. — Dressing of Lands. — Different Cropjs. — Cidtivation of Wheat, gathering theCorn, and threshing. — Inundation. — Different Levels of^9ypt- — Ed
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