A dictionary of the . heVatican is therefore represented as sur-610 rounded by sixteen children. A singlecubit more is apt to cause terrible de-vastation in the Delta, and elsewherecover the fields destined for the autumncrop, while a deficiency of 2 cubits causesdrought and famine in Upper Egypt.(See Baedekers Lower Eyypt.) The successive years of famine in thedays of Joseph were doubtless due to adeficient overflow of the Nile for thoseyears. Formerly this annual inundationturned Egypt into a vast lake, but inlater times the water has been distributedby a great network of canals, fro
A dictionary of the . heVatican is therefore represented as sur-610 rounded by sixteen children. A singlecubit more is apt to cause terrible de-vastation in the Delta, and elsewherecover the fields destined for the autumncrop, while a deficiency of 2 cubits causesdrought and famine in Upper Egypt.(See Baedekers Lower Eyypt.) The successive years of famine in thedays of Joseph were doubtless due to adeficient overflow of the Nile for thoseyears. Formerly this annual inundationturned Egypt into a vast lake, but inlater times the water has been distributedby a great network of canals, from whichthe huge basins of cultivated land intowhich the canals divide the country, aresupplied with water of the depth requiredto leave a deposit of mud to fertilize theland. The native uses his feet to regu-late the flow of water into each of thesquares or basins of land, and by adexterous movement of his toes forms orremoves a tiny embanKment, as may berequired to admit the proper flow ofwater. Another common mode is to use. the Shadoot. the shadoof. a bucket attached to along pole hung on a pivot, balanced bya stone or a lump of clay at one end, andhaving the bucket on the other end. Tothis day the Nile is lined for hundredsof miles with these shadoofs, worked bymen, women, and children, who lift thewater out of the river to irrigate their NIL NIM fields. Both these methods are believedto be very ancient, and may be alludedto by Moses in contrasting the fountainsand rainfalls in Palestine with the ab-sence of this supply in Egypt: For theland, whither thou goest in to possess it,is not as the land of Egypt, from whenceye came out, where thou sowedstthy seed,and wateredst it with thy foot as a gardenof herbs. Deut. 11 : 10, 11. A numberof festivals were celebrated in connectionwith the annual rise of the Nile, whichappear from the monuments to havebeen common as early as the fourteenth
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