The physiography of the river Nile and is basin . 4 au Statistiipie de rEgypte. Cairo. 1883. ? It should be lueutioiieil that the original oliservations were made according to the Coptie(.lulian) calendar, and .\li Pasha Mnliarik has converted them into the corroHpoudiiig Moliani-mudan years. Here, liowever, au error crept in. No Nile maximum occurred in the year 1270of the Hegira. one falling at the end of 12fi;» , and the the begiuidngof 1271 thoughlis has r^cjrd^d thit for 1271 as if it belonged to the year 1270 and so on. Thus all theNile floods from
The physiography of the river Nile and is basin . 4 au Statistiipie de rEgypte. Cairo. 1883. ? It should be lueutioiieil that the original oliservations were made according to the Coptie(.lulian) calendar, and .\li Pasha Mnliarik has converted them into the corroHpoudiiig Moliani-mudan years. Here, liowever, au error crept in. No Nile maximum occurred in the year 1270of the Hegira. one falling at the end of 12fi;» , and the the begiuidngof 1271 thoughlis has r^cjrd^d thit for 1271 as if it belonged to the year 1270 and so on. Thus all theNile floods from to 18112 are given a year too early ; but by rcLOrding the Hood of ll-tj2 toboth 1278 and 127!l th> vears after this have been uiade correct. PLATE XLI. HEIGHT OF THE WATER-TABLE AT NAG HAMADI IN 1905 Nile I well. COMPARATIVE DIAGRAM OF WATER LEVEL OF THE NILEAND OF FOUR WELLS AT NAG HAMADI metren.^ . Level of ground at No. 1 well inetreo i 1 \ 11 1 ,-?J -, ^o;^ / \ \ . t : / ? 1 ? 1 f \ i ?->.j^ 1 1 1/ /. // 1 / * * :\ pr ? 1 » * wo/I ^~~- ??? M f \ y 1 A 1 3,^ well __ . I I ^ 1 * *>c/. well ^.-/ ! Li . 1 si ViU .-?T ; ? i ..***• 1 11 1 1 1905 15 3 » 17 31 ia as SI • 15 50 »•« OS 10 Ifl JUNE JULY AUOUST SEPTEMieil OOTOBCfl 1 8URVEV DEPT IJX 3TAJ<I AMAH PA^ TA. 3J9AT^paTAV^ TH»I^H !JIM 3H^ 310 — The Delta Barrage records are less ainbiiiious. Thev extend from184() to 1872, and were kept daily for the whole year, and not for theflood only. No originals of these apparently exist in Egypt now butthe maxima are given in Statisticpie Generale de TEgypte, andcopies of all tlie observations were sent by Stone Pasha in liS8(J toColonel Doiaielly. by whom they were given to the Science and ArtDepartment, London, but these cainiot now be traced. Ihe dail
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