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When the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile overflows the land, only the towns are seen high and dry above the water, very like the islands in the +Aegean Sea [25,38.5] (sea) Aegean sea . These alone stand out, the rest of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt being a sheet of water. So when this happens, folk are not ferried, as usual, in the course of the stream, but clean over the plain.
When the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile overflows the land, only the towns are seen high and dry above the water, very like the islands in the +Aegean Sea [25,38.5] (sea) Aegean sea . These alone stand out, the rest of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt being a sheet of water. So when this happens, folk are not ferried, as usual, in the course of the stream, but clean over the plain.
[2] Indeed, the boat going up from
Kawm Juayf [30.583,30.9] (inhabited place), Al Buhayrah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Naucratis
to
Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Memphis
passes close by the pyramids themselves, though the course does not go by here,
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but by the Delta's point and the town
Cercasorus; but your voyage from the sea and
+Canopus [30.5,31.316] (deserted settlement), Al-Iskandariyah, Urban, Egypt, Africa
Canobus
to
Kawm Juayf [30.583,30.9] (inhabited place), Al Buhayrah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Naucratis
will take you over the plain near the town of
Anthylla and that which is called
Arkhandrus' town.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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