. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 3,300 Yards. made it sufficiently evident that a far more efficacious way of getting rid of epidemics would be to sweep the streets clean of the filth encumbering them at every turn. In an often inundated plain which stretches south-west of the city in the direction of Lake Burlos, there is another holy place, where miracles continue to be wrought, not, however, by Mussulman hajis, but by a female Christian saint. This is the Coptic convent of Setti-Bamiana, or " Our Lady ; Menuf, Tantah. In the part of the delta comprised between the two b
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 3,300 Yards. made it sufficiently evident that a far more efficacious way of getting rid of epidemics would be to sweep the streets clean of the filth encumbering them at every turn. In an often inundated plain which stretches south-west of the city in the direction of Lake Burlos, there is another holy place, where miracles continue to be wrought, not, however, by Mussulman hajis, but by a female Christian saint. This is the Coptic convent of Setti-Bamiana, or " Our Lady ; Menuf, Tantah. In the part of the delta comprised between the two branches of Damietta and Rosetta, a few commercial towns are scattered in the midst of the canals and irriga- tion works. Such are Menuf, which gives its name to the large Menufieh Hay a, or canal, where have been found the fragments of a trilingual stone, Shibin-el-Kour,
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