Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . tility to the waiers of the Nile with which it is artificially irri-gated. The Bohr Yiisuf. a channel 207 M. in length, which is more probablya natural branch of the river, artificially adapted, than a canal, difrom the Nile to the N. of Assiut, and Hows through a narrow opening inthe Libyan chain into the Fayum, where it divides into nunramifications, abundantly watering the v. hole district. One of its branches ?, ards the skirting the E, slopes oftheLibyan hills. At IVwhere the Bahr Yu
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