Fig. 29.—Military post. Plan of the entrances ; from Mariette. The most curious relic of the military engineering of theEgyptians is to be found in Nubia. Thirty-seven miles south-ward of the cataracts of Wadi-Halfah the Nile has worn achannel through a long chain of granite hills which run… … t3 Military Architecture. 45 the water now rushes impetuously. Navigation is only possibleamong these rapids during the inundation. This point in therivers course was therefore well fitted to be the gate of Egyptand to be fortified against the incursions of the southern tribes.During the first…
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