. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ndle of herbs upon her head, isdriving her goats before her. An irregular line of asses or of laden camelsemerges from one hollow of the undulating road only to disappear withinanother. A group of peasants, crouched upon the shore, in the ancient posture is only this name lalo preceded by the masculine article phi, ph. Ptolemy the geographer translatedthe native name by an exact equivalent, à fiiyas , the great river (Brugsch, op. cit., pp. 78, 79). 1 From a drawing by Boudier, after a photograph by Insinger, taken in 1884. 2 Bersim is
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ndle of herbs upon her head, isdriving her goats before her. An irregular line of asses or of laden camelsemerges from one hollow of the undulating road only to disappear withinanother. A group of peasants, crouched upon the shore, in the ancient posture is only this name lalo preceded by the masculine article phi, ph. Ptolemy the geographer translatedthe native name by an exact equivalent, à fiiyas , the great river (Brugsch, op. cit., pp. 78, 79). 1 From a drawing by Boudier, after a photograph by Insinger, taken in 1884. 2 Bersim is a kind of trefoil, the Tri/olium Alexandrinum of Linn^us. It is very common inEgypt, and the only plant of the kind generally cultivated for fodder (Raffeneau-Delile, Histoiredes plantes cultivées en Égyple, in the Description de VÉgypte, vol. xix. p. 59, sqq.). 8 THE NILE AND EGYPT. of knees to chin, patiently awaits the return of the ferry-boat. A dainty villagelooks forth smiling from beneath its palm trees. Near at hand it is all naked. A DAINTY VILLAGE LOOKS FOUTH SMILING FROM BENEATH ITS PALM filth and ugliness : a cluster of low grey huts built of mud and laths ; two orthree taller houses, whitewashed ; an enclosed square shaded by sycamores ;
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