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Title: The empire and the century
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Goldman, Charles Sydney Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Subjects: Imperial federation
Publisher: London, John Murray
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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e thirty miles brings the temples to Philae andthe palm-trees of Shellal into view. Here the lastcataract—that of Assouan—commences, now spannedby the great dam, with its five locks for navigation. Some few miles down-stream the town of Assouan,with its fine hotels and charming river-front, is reached,the Nile having at this point traversed a distance of just2,700 miles from its outlet at the Victoria Nyanza. For the 600 miles of river between Assouan and Cairono description is necessary. Twelve miles to the northof the city of the Caliphs the Nile bifurcates into thetwo branches of Rosetta and Damietta, and betweenthem lies the area known as the Delta, so renowned forits fertility and its prosperity. At the apex of theDelta are situated Mougel Beys two barrages. The distance from this point to the sea is about 160miles, and the total distance between the Ripon Fallsand the Mediterranean is consequently rather more than3,400 miles. The Nile, in making this journey, probably passes
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A RIVER OF HISTORY 799 through more varied conditions of country, soil, andclimate, and affords existence to a greater variety ofraces than is the case with any other among the mainwaterways of the world. To describe it in any detail would fill a large volume.Much has been written regarding it, but much remainsyet to be recorded. It must always—not only onaccount of its physical characteristics, but also becauseof the place which it has maintained throughout theworlds history—be one of the most interesting of thegreat streams which water the earths surface. BRITISH RULE IN THE SUDAN By THE HON. SIDNEY PEEL The regeneration of Egypt since the British occupationhas been founded on the control of the waters of theNile. A sound system of irrigation has been the basisof all her rising prosperity. At first there was enoughto do in regulating and distributing the water naturallybrought down by the river. But as the area of cul-tivated land increased, and the demands for water beganto exc

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