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Magic, Mystery and Mister Prince

Dan Fulani

出版	Hodder Education Group, 2006-10
主題	Education / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & PhonicsEducation / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & HumanitiesJuvenile Nonfiction / Literary Criticism & CollectionsJuvenile Nonfiction / Readers / IntermediateLiterary Collections / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN	03409403879780340940389
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mLe7AAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... HISTORY OF EGYPT. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. I. The Ancient Geography of Egypt. Egypt lies in the northeastern corner of Africa, between the twenty-fourth and the thirty-second degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the east by Asia and the Red Sea, on the south by a line drawn east and west through Assuan, on the First Cataract, on the west by the Desert of Sahara, and on the north by the Mediterranean Sea. This tract of country is five hundred and twenty miles long, and on an average one hundred and sixty miles wide. The area of the entire country is about one hundred thousand square miles, or about two and a half times that of Ohio. But the whole of this country is not cultivable; by far the larger part is desert--on the west a low, arid, sandy plain; on the east an arid mountain region. Only the immediate valley of the Nile is arable soil, and this is a very narrow strip, which between Assuan and the Delta never exceeds fifteen miles in width, and at places is only two miles wide. In the Delta there is a far wider stretch of cultivable land, owing to the fact that the Nile here divides into numerous branches; but even here all the land is not available for cultivation, owing to numerous great swamps and large lakes. In antiquity the greater part of the Delta was swamp and meadow land; and its chief value lay in the fact that it was a good grazing country, and that its swamps and lakes made fine hunting-grounds, abounding as they did in all sorts of aquatic birds. The lakes were full of fish, so that fishing was added to grazing and hunting, and thus the country possessed considerable resources even before agriculture became profitable. It is well known that Egypt owes this strip of good land to the Nile. This remarkable...