. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . where it now is (Champollion, VÉgypte sous lesPharaons, vol. ii. pp. 28, 147-151). The Arab geographers call the head of the Delta Batn-el-Bagarah, the Cows Belly. Ampère, in his Voyage en Egypte et en Nubie, p. 120, says, May it nothe that this name, denoting the place where the most fertile part of Egypt begins, is a reminiscenceoi ihe Cow Goddess, of Isis, the symbol of fecundity, and the personification of Egypt ? 3 De Eozière estimated the mean breadth as being only a little over nine miles (De la constitutionphysique de lEgypte et de ses r
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . where it now is (Champollion, VÉgypte sous lesPharaons, vol. ii. pp. 28, 147-151). The Arab geographers call the head of the Delta Batn-el-Bagarah, the Cows Belly. Ampère, in his Voyage en Egypte et en Nubie, p. 120, says, May it nothe that this name, denoting the place where the most fertile part of Egypt begins, is a reminiscenceoi ihe Cow Goddess, of Isis, the symbol of fecundity, and the personification of Egypt ? 3 De Eozière estimated the mean breadth as being only a little over nine miles (De la constitutionphysique de lEgypte et de ses rapports avec les anciennes institutions de cette contrée, in the Descriptionde lEgypte, vol. xx. p. 270). 4 latûr-ââ, Iaûr-âû, which becomes Iar-o, Ial-o in the Coptic (Brugsch, Geogr. Ins., vol. i. , 79 ; and Dictionnaire Géographique, pp. 84-88). The word Phiala, by which Timaîus the mathe-matician designated the sources of the Nile (Pliny, Hist. Nat., v. 9 ; cf. Solinus, Polyhist., ch. xxxv.), THE APPEAliANCE OF THE BANES. 7. A LINE OF LADEN CAMELS EMERGES FItOM A HOLLOW OF THE UNDULATING A second arm flows close to the Libyan desert, here and there formedinto canals, elsewhere left to follow its own course. From the headof the Delta to the village of Derût it is called the Bahr-Yûsuf; beyondDerût—up to Gebel Silsileh—it is the Ibrâhimîyeh, the Sohâgîyeh, the Raiâ the ancient names are unknown to us. This Western Nile dries upin winter throughout all its upper courses : where it continues to flow, itis by scanty accessions from the main Nile. It also divides north ofHenassieh, and by the gorge of Illahûn sends out a branch which passesbeyond the hills into the basin of the Fayûm. The true Nile, the EasternNile, is less a river than a sinuous lake encumbered with islets and sandbanks,and its navigable channel winds capriciously between them, flowing with astrong and steady current below the steep, black banks cut sheer through theall
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