. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . lone has not changed. As it was at Philae, so it is at , however, on the right bank, 600 leagues from the sea, is its firstaffluent, the Takazze, which intermittently brings to it the waters ofNorthern Ethiopia. At Khartum, the single channel in which the riverflowed divides ; and two other streams are opened up in a southerly direction, 1 A list of the Nubian names of these rocks ami inlets has been somewbat incorrectly drawn up byJ. J. Eifaud, Tableau de VEgypte, de la Nubie et des lieux circonvoisins, pp. 55-GO (towards the endof t
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . lone has not changed. As it was at Philae, so it is at , however, on the right bank, 600 leagues from the sea, is its firstaffluent, the Takazze, which intermittently brings to it the waters ofNorthern Ethiopia. At Khartum, the single channel in which the riverflowed divides ; and two other streams are opened up in a southerly direction, 1 A list of the Nubian names of these rocks ami inlets has been somewbat incorrectly drawn up byJ. J. Eifaud, Tableau de VEgypte, de la Nubie et des lieux circonvoisins, pp. 55-GO (towards the endof the volume, after the Vocabulaires). Rifaud only counted forty-four cultivated islands at thebeginniug of tins century. 2 The cataract system has been studied, and its plan published by E. de Gottberg (Des cataractesdu Nil et socialement de celles de Hannek et de Kaybar, 1867, Paris, 4to), and later again by Chélu(Le Nil, le Soudan, lÉgypte, pp. 29-73). 3 View taken from the top of the rocks of Abusîr, after a photograph by Insinger, in ENTRANCE TO TUE SECOND 16 THE NILE AND EGYPT. each, of them apparently equal in volume to the main stream. Whichis the true Nile? Is it the Blue Nile, which seems to come down fromthe distant mountains ? Or is it the White Nile, which has traversed theimmense plains of equatorial Africa. The old Egyptians never knew. Theriver kept the secret of its source from them as obstinately as it withheldit from us until a few years ago. Vainly did their victorious armiesfollow the Nile for months together as they pursued the tribes who dweltupon its banks, only to find it as wide, as full, as irresistible in its progressas ever. It was a fresh-water sea, and sea—iaûmâ, iôma—was the name bywhich they called The Egyptians therefore never sought its source. They imagined the wholeuniverse to be a large box, nearly rectangular in form, whose greatest diameterwas from south to north, and its least from east to The earth,
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