t its sources,render the surrounding land luxuriantly fertile. On ac-count of the great drought in Lower Egjpt, these inun-dations are looked forward to by the inliabitants withgreat anxiety; and defect or excess are alike disastrous.Above the southern frontier of Egypt, the high inks ofthe river… … THE SPHINX. EG-yPT. Area, 361,125 square miles ; nearly twice the size of Quebec; population, 5,584,000; or, including Nubia, Kordofan, Darfur,and the countries on the Red Sea and the White Nile, nominally subject to the Khedive, an area of 1,153,300 square miles,and a population of about…
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