. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . amid. The almost uninhabited country which con-nects Africa with Asia is flanked towards thesouth by two chains of hills which unite at rightangles, and together form the so-called Gebel et-Tih. This country is a table-land, gently inclinedfrom south to north, bare, sombre, covered with flint-shingle, and siliceous Drawn by Boudier, from the chromolithograph in Lepsius, Denim., i. pi. 45. The vignette,also by Boudier, represents Râhotpû, a dignitary of Mêdûm, of whom mention is made fuither on(cf. p. 363 of this History) ; the drawing is made fr
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . amid. The almost uninhabited country which con-nects Africa with Asia is flanked towards thesouth by two chains of hills which unite at rightangles, and together form the so-called Gebel et-Tih. This country is a table-land, gently inclinedfrom south to north, bare, sombre, covered with flint-shingle, and siliceous Drawn by Boudier, from the chromolithograph in Lepsius, Denim., i. pi. 45. The vignette,also by Boudier, represents Râhotpû, a dignitary of Mêdûm, of whom mention is made fuither on(cf. p. 363 of this History) ; the drawing is made from a photograph by Emil Biugsch-Bey. 2 About 4100, with the possibility of an error of several centuries more or less. 3 Prisse Papyrus, pi. ii. 11. 7, 8 (Vireys edition, p. 24). The fragments of the Royal Canon ofTurin appear to attribute to Hûni and Snofrûi reigns of equal length, namely, of twenty-four years(E. de Rougé, Recherches sur les monuments quon petit attribuer aux six premières dynasties deMan&hon, p. 154, note 2).. 348 TEE MEMPHITE EMPIRE. rocks, and breaking out at frequent intervals into long low chalky hills,seamed with wadys, the largest of which—that of El-Arish—having drainedall the others into itself, opens into the Mediterranean halfway betweenPelusium and Torrents of rain are not infrequent in winter and spring,but the small quantity of water which they furnish is quickly evaporated, andbarely keeps alive the meagre vegetation in the bottom of the valleys. Some-times, after months of absolute drought, a tempest breaks over the more elevatedparts of the The wind rises suddenly in squall-like blasts ; thick clouds,borne one knows not whence, are riven by lightning to the incessant accom-paniment of thunder ; it would seem as if the heavens had broken up and werecrashing down upon the mountains. In a few moments streams of muddywater rushing down the ravines, through the gulleys and along the slightestdepressions, hurry to th
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