San Francisco water . owerfully they affect our imaginations; butthink of all the other great men who tarriedby this river in the execution of projectswhich set history in the grooves from whichit has not yet deviated! Joseph, Moses, Alex-ander the Great, Julius Caesar, Antony,Augustus Caesar, the great MohammedanCaliphs, Napoleon—these are but a few ofthe famous who gazed at one time or anotherupon the broad bosom of the Nile and leftthe world different from what they found in the recital of epochal events let us notforget that Flight into Egypt that saved theChild lesus from the murde
San Francisco water . owerfully they affect our imaginations; butthink of all the other great men who tarriedby this river in the execution of projectswhich set history in the grooves from whichit has not yet deviated! Joseph, Moses, Alex-ander the Great, Julius Caesar, Antony,Augustus Caesar, the great MohammedanCaliphs, Napoleon—these are but a few ofthe famous who gazed at one time or anotherupon the broad bosom of the Nile and leftthe world different from what they found in the recital of epochal events let us notforget that Flight into Egypt that saved theChild lesus from the murderous wrath ofHerod. Considered as a water supply, surely theNile may be placed in foremost aquam Nili bibit, rursus bibet is theancient saying that is inscribed today onShepherds Hotel in Cairo. The Moslemshave borrowed the thought, for they say:He who has once tasted the water of theNile, longs for it inexpressibly , of course, is a good deal more than a SAN FRANCISCO WATER January, 192. Father Nile, a Vatican masterpiece tribute to the taste of Nile water; it is amystical tribute to the fascination that theriver exerts upon the mind. Setting aside themarvelous function of irrigation that theNile has performed since the birth of theworld, consider the myriads who have drunkits waters through all the ages. The Nile hasa waterway of about four thousand miles,and even the oases of the Sahara Desert aresupplied by the infiltration of Nile today, just as happened thousands ofyears ago, the water-boats ply up and downthe river, laden with goatskins full of waterto be delivered to the water-carriers at vari-ous settlements along the banks. This ever-present condition on the Nile is illustratedon the cover of San Francisco Water. Five hundred years before the beginningof the Christian era, Herodotus, the fatherof history, paid a visit to Egypt, and in hisfascinating pages there is much evidence ofthe deep impression that was made upon himby the
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