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... river not only gives water to a rainless land , it makes the very soil . If the land is hardened by the brown , mud - bearing water each flood- time , it will bear well ; if not , it will soon go back to desert again . If the water is ...
... river not only gives water to a rainless land , it makes the very soil . If the land is hardened by the brown , mud - bearing water each flood- time , it will bear well ; if not , it will soon go back to desert again . If the water is ...
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... river is high the gates of the Barrage are opened , and let off the water down its natural channels ; when it is at its lowest , in early summer , the gates are closed , the Rosetta and Damietta estuaries Uor M go all but dry . The life ...
... river is high the gates of the Barrage are opened , and let off the water down its natural channels ; when it is at its lowest , in early summer , the gates are closed , the Rosetta and Damietta estuaries Uor M go all but dry . The life ...
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... river - by- itself the Nile is , when you understand that one of its chief functions is not to run into the sea . To understand better , you must know that there are two systems of cultivation in Egypt . In Lower Egypt - that is , the ...
... river - by- itself the Nile is , when you understand that one of its chief functions is not to run into the sea . To understand better , you must know that there are two systems of cultivation in Egypt . In Lower Egypt - that is , the ...
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... river of Egypt , were clean gone , as if they belonged to another world . This world was all yellows and browns — all sand . The braying donkeys and the bawl- ing Arabs had floated away into the land of dreams , and we had entered into ...
... river of Egypt , were clean gone , as if they belonged to another world . This world was all yellows and browns — all sand . The braying donkeys and the bawl- ing Arabs had floated away into the land of dreams , and we had entered into ...
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... river and no rail - and all the needful camels would run into money , and though the Egyptian Govern- ment hopes for a grant in aid , Sudan cam- paigns have to be done on the cheap . So that it seems likely that the advance will go slow ...
... river and no rail - and all the needful camels would run into money , and though the Egyptian Govern- ment hopes for a grant in aid , Sudan cam- paigns have to be done on the cheap . So that it seems likely that the advance will go slow ...
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