. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . k of the Nile to the Libyan range, fromthe neighbourhood of Riqqah to that of Mêdûm. Theprincipality comprised the territory lying between theNile and the Bahr Yûsûf, from the above-mentioned twovillages to the Harabshent Canal—a district known toGreek geographers as the island of Heracleopolis;—it moreover included the whole basin of the Fayûm, onthe west of the valley. In very early times it had been divided into three parts : the Upper Oleander—Nârû Khonîti—the Lower Oleander—Narii Pahûi—and the lake land—To-shît ; and these divisions, united
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . k of the Nile to the Libyan range, fromthe neighbourhood of Riqqah to that of Mêdûm. Theprincipality comprised the territory lying between theNile and the Bahr Yûsûf, from the above-mentioned twovillages to the Harabshent Canal—a district known toGreek geographers as the island of Heracleopolis;—it moreover included the whole basin of the Fayûm, onthe west of the valley. In very early times it had been divided into three parts : the Upper Oleander—Nârû Khonîti—the Lower Oleander—Narii Pahûi—and the lake land—To-shît ; and these divisions, unitedusually under the supremacy of one chief, formed a kind of small state, ofwhich Heracleopolis was always the capital. The soil was fertile, well watered,and well tilled, but the revenues from this district, confined between the 1 Drawn by Boudier from a photograph by Golénischeff. The vignette represents the bust ola statue of Amenemhâît III. (Golénischeff, Ermitage impérial, Inventaire de la Collection égyptienne,. 446 TUE FIRST TI1EBAN EMPIRE. two arms of the river, were small in comparison with the wealth whichtheir ruler derived from his lands on the other side of the mountain Fayûm is approached by a narrow and winding gorge, more than sixmiles in length—a depression of natural formation, deepened by the handof man to allow a free passage to the waters of the The canalwhich conveys them leaves the Bahr Yûsûf at a point a little to the northof Heracleopolis, carries them in a swift stream through the gorge in theLibyan chain, and emerges into an immense amphitheatre, whose highestside is parallel to the Nile valley, and whose terraced slopes descend abruptlyto about a hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean. Two great armsseparate themselves from this canal to the right and left—the Wady Tamiehand the Wady Nazleh ; they wina at first along the foot of the hills, and thenagain approaching each other, empty them
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