Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . , i bridge- B turn. and ride OS theenibanknier. - - [TOve. Immed- iately beyond the - - - - serve to the right, ip of rubbisit manufa ride of the embank- ment 51 3 in - -nor. and. large expanses of The embankment- ear the firs - i0 min. from the 54 3 at differ-- sons - leads due W., ses I] - in, but it is not practicable at the seas a. Ihe other route (winter- mbankment to I rses the Mitrahineh mbankment farther on. The insignificant sandy expanse before us, shaded by p and fragment
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . , i bridge- B turn. and ride OS theenibanknier. - - [TOve. Immed- iately beyond the - - - - serve to the right, ip of rubbisit manufa ride of the embank- ment 51 3 in - -nor. and. large expanses of The embankment- ear the firs - i0 min. from the 54 3 at differ-- sons - leads due W., ses I] - in, but it is not practicable at the seas a. Ihe other route (winter- mbankment to I rses the Mitrahineh mbankment farther on. The insignificant sandy expanse before us, shaded by p and fragments of. is the ancient Site of Memphis. - - interesting observe ftoi tent Egyptians built their edifiees, \.-option of palaces and temples, of large sun-dried bricks of Nile-mod - Necropolis to the W. of the ancient city, no • that one of the most famous and populo - itiqoity had once stood here. It is not - idea of the situation of the city ; and as its s - were carried off i:i former centuries to build edi- f the Nile (see p. ? The nan s, which art - said -a-days journey in length down to the. of Cairo, MEMPHIS. 4. Route. 373 12th cent., extended between the Nile and the Bahr Yiisuf, to theN. as far as Gizeh, and to the S. about as far as the latitude of thePyramids of Dahshur. The most important quarters of the city andmany of its public buildings appear to have stood in the fields ofthe villages of Bedrashen, Mitrahineh, and Kasriyeh. Menes(p. 86), the enduring, the eternai, who is placed by theEgyptians at the head of all their dynasties (having been immediatelypreceded by the dynasty of the gods), and is described as a man ofThis (near Abydos in Central Egypt, the district which DiodOruacalls the oldest part of Egypt), is said to have been the founder ofthe Empire, and the builder of Memphis. Herodotus states that hewas told by the Egyptian priests, that Menes had constructed anembankment across the Nile about 100 stadia above Memphis, andthus compelled the river, which h
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