Land of Khemi: Up & Down the Middle NileBlackwood, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... miles to the south - west of Cairo , and twenty - five miles from the Nile , in a depression of the Libyan desert , lies a region celebrated above all others in Egypt for the luxuriance of its vegetation and the variety of its products ...
... miles to the south - west of Cairo , and twenty - five miles from the Nile , in a depression of the Libyan desert , lies a region celebrated above all others in Egypt for the luxuriance of its vegetation and the variety of its products ...
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... miles from Cairo , the road branches off to the Fayoum . Here we are delayed a couple of hours to wait for the down - train ; and seated in a date - grove , evidently consecrated to al fresco meals , to judge by the great quantity of ...
... miles from Cairo , the road branches off to the Fayoum . Here we are delayed a couple of hours to wait for the down - train ; and seated in a date - grove , evidently consecrated to al fresco meals , to judge by the great quantity of ...
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... miles to a summit - level of about a hundred and forty feet above the level of the sea - as great an altitude , probably , as that attained by any railway in the country . On our left is a range of sand - hills , and beyond it we THE ...
... miles to a summit - level of about a hundred and forty feet above the level of the sea - as great an altitude , probably , as that attained by any railway in the country . On our left is a range of sand - hills , and beyond it we THE ...
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... miles of desert is at an end . We are at El Edwa , the first village of the Fayoum ; and a run of five miles more through richly cultivated country , lands us at Medinet el Fayoum , the capital of the province , and practically the ...
... miles of desert is at an end . We are at El Edwa , the first village of the Fayoum ; and a run of five miles more through richly cultivated country , lands us at Medinet el Fayoum , the capital of the province , and practically the ...
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... miles along the base of the Libyan hills and parallel with the Nile , takes advantage of a depression in the chain , and is conducted by sluices at Illahoon into the pro- vince - flowing through the town of Medinet in a broad deep ...
... miles along the base of the Libyan hills and parallel with the Nile , takes advantage of a depression in the chain , and is conducted by sluices at Illahoon into the pro- vince - flowing through the town of Medinet in a broad deep ...
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ancient city ancient Egyptian Arab Arsinoë Arsinoite Nome Bahr Youssef bank Beni Hassan Birket el Kurûn Blackwood's Magazine boat built Cairo canal cave chambers Church cliff cloth columns Coptic Copts Crocodilopolis Crown 8vo crude brick Daira Daira Sanieh date-trees desert dynasty Edinburgh Egypt Engravings evidently excavations Fayoum Fcap Feap feet formed fragments French morocco gardens gorge Greek Haybee Herodotus hieroglyphics History Hyksos Illahoon Illustrations inscription interesting irrigation Isis John Galt Joseph Khedive king Labyrinth Lake Moris land land of Goshen Lepsius Maps Medinet el Fayoum ment miles Minieh modern Moses mounds mummies native Nile Nome numerous OLIPHANT Pharaoh picturesque Pinedjem Poems post 8vo priest Professor province Pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign remains river rock round ruins sarcophagi Savak Scotland Second Edition sheikh side spot stone Strabo sugar-factories temple Third Edition tion tombs town village vols walls worship
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