. A complete geography . Fig. people from the^Egyptian Sudan. EGYPT 509 the world. The word comes from the Greek letter delta (A), which hasthe form of a triangle. Notice that shape in Figure 519. Mediterrartean Seev. Fig. 519. The lower Nile. The shaded area between the two deserts is farming land which is reachedby water from the river. The numerous crossed lines are railways. Find the is the location at the head of a fertile delta, and at the outlet of a narrow rivervalley bounded by desert, a favorable one for a large city ? When the rainy season comes to the Nile
. A complete geography . Fig. people from the^Egyptian Sudan. EGYPT 509 the world. The word comes from the Greek letter delta (A), which hasthe form of a triangle. Notice that shape in Figure 519. Mediterrartean Seev. Fig. 519. The lower Nile. The shaded area between the two deserts is farming land which is reachedby water from the river. The numerous crossed lines are railways. Find the is the location at the head of a fertile delta, and at the outlet of a narrow rivervalley bounded by desert, a favorable one for a large city ? When the rainy season comes to the Nile tributaries among theAbyssinian mountains, the river rises so high that it overflows largetracts of the broad delta below Cairo. The rise begins in Jun6 andreaches its height in October. By this overflow not only is the land 510 AFRICA irrigated, but a thin layer of line mud is spread over the fields. Thisserves so to fertilize the soil that, year after year, heavy crops maybe raised without making the soil sterile. Agriculture. — In consequence of these remarkably favorable con-ditions, the Nile delta has been occupied by an agricultural peoplefrom the very earliest times. It is still the seat of a great grainindustry,
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