![]() From Assuân to Edfu (about 48 miles) the banks are so high that even in the annual inundation they are above the level of high water, and consequently remain barren. The cataract, however, has lost much of its grandeur since the building of the great dam which now regulates the supply for the irrigation of the country in time of low water. At Assuân the course of the river is broken by the first cataract, where its waters rush between numberless more or less diminutive islands, the most famous of which is the island of Philæ above and Elephantine in front of Assuân. The general aspect of the Nubian desert is that of a comparatively low table-land, stony in the north, studded with sandy hills in the south. Indeed, "in Lower Nubia the cultivable land area is seldom more than a few hundred yards in width and at not a few points, especially on the west bank, the desert advances clear up to the river bank" (Baedeker, Egypt, 1908, p. As far as Edfu (Appollinopolis Magna) the valley is rather narrow, rarely as much as two or three miles wide. From Napata the Nile continues for a while in the southwest direction which it follows from Abu-Hamed, but soon assumes is ordinary sinuous course to the north, describing two great principle curves one to the west down to Wâdi Halfa, just below the second cataract, Soleb being the westernmost point, then another to the east as far as Assiût (Lycopolis), Assuân forming its apex, or easternmost point. Distances by water are somewhat greater owing to the winding course of the river. latitude, which, under the eighteenth dynasty, was the southernmost city of the empire another stretch of about 590 miles by rail. However, from remote antiquity, as now, Egypt held sway over Nubia, reaching by degrees as far as Napata (Gebel Barkal), 18° 30' N. ![]() latitude, a stretch of about 680 miles by rail. latitude, to the First Cataract, at Assuân (Syene), 24° 5' 30" N. ![]() The name Egypt proper applies only to the rather narrow valley of the Nile from the Mediterranean, 31° 35' N. This subject will be treated under the following main divisions: Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download.
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