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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 12 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
opened by Pharaoh Necho about 605 B. C., by Ptolemy Philadelphus about 300 B. C., by the Caesars, by the Caliphs; and was abandoned when Vasco de Gama circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope. The canal which conducted the water of the Nile to Lake Moeris during half the year, and distributed it during the other half for the purpose of irrigation, was a stupendous work, and, according to Savary, was forty leagues in length. Two additional canals were also provided with sluices, which governed n the river is rising, lower than at the shore when the river is falling. Herodotus (II. 4, 5) reports the Egyptian priests as saying, that in the time of Men [Menes] all Egypt, except the Thebaic canton, was a marsh, none of the land below Lake Moeris then showing itself above the surface of the water. This is [now] a distance of seven days sail from the sea up the river. What they said of their country seemed to me very reasonable; for any one who sees Egypt, without having heard a word
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
the priests is to me a strong evidence of the origin of the country. They said to me that, when Moeris was king, the Nile overflowed all Egypt below Memphis, as soon as it rose so little as 8 cubits. Now Moeris had not been dead 900 years at the time when I heard this of the priests; yet at the present day, unless the river rise 15 or 16 cubits, it does not overflow the lands. It seems to me, therefore, if the land goes on rising and growing at this rate, the Egyptians who dwell upon Lake Moeris, in the Delta (as it is called), and elsewhere, will one day, by the stoppage of the inundations, suffer permanently the fate which they told me they expected would some day or other befall the Greeks. On hearing that the whole land of Greece is watered by rain from heaven, and not, like their own, inundated by rivers, they observed, Some day the Greeks will be disappointed of their grand hope, and then they will be wretchedly hungry, as much as to say, If God shall some day see fit not