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... land through which it passes . Piercing the desert , and at its annual overflow depositing rich sediment brought from the Abyssinian highlands , the river has created the Delta and the fertile strip in Upper Egypt . This cultivable land ...
... land through which it passes . Piercing the desert , and at its annual overflow depositing rich sediment brought from the Abyssinian highlands , the river has created the Delta and the fertile strip in Upper Egypt . This cultivable land ...
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... land separating them from the Mediterranean is nowhere more than 10 m . wide . East of the Damietta mouth of the Nile this strip is in places not more than 200 yds . broad . All the lakes are shallow and the water in them salt or ...
... land separating them from the Mediterranean is nowhere more than 10 m . wide . East of the Damietta mouth of the Nile this strip is in places not more than 200 yds . broad . All the lakes are shallow and the water in them salt or ...
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... land - lines with the outside world . One land - line connects at El - Arish with the line through Syria and Asia Minor to Constantinople . Another line connects at Wadi Halfa with the Sudan system , affording direct telegraphic ...
... land - lines with the outside world . One land - line connects at El - Arish with the line through Syria and Asia Minor to Constantinople . Another line connects at Wadi Halfa with the Sudan system , affording direct telegraphic ...
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... land under perennial irrigation ; ( 2 ) flood ( Nili ) , 1st of August to 30th of November ; and ( 3 ) winter ( shetwi ) , 1st of December to 31st of March . Cotton , sugar and rice are the chief summer crops ; wheat , barley , flax and ...
... land under perennial irrigation ; ( 2 ) flood ( Nili ) , 1st of August to 30th of November ; and ( 3 ) winter ( shetwi ) , 1st of December to 31st of March . Cotton , sugar and rice are the chief summer crops ; wheat , barley , flax and ...
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... land under cultivation permanently increased the resources of the country and widened the area of taxation . Reserve funds . With the accumulating proofs of the financial stability of the country various changes were made in connexion ...
... land under cultivation permanently increased the resources of the country and widened the area of taxation . Reserve funds . With the accumulating proofs of the financial stability of the country various changes were made in connexion ...
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acid action al-din Alexandria alternating current amirs ancient angles army Author became body British Cairo caliph called canal centre century charge chemical church circuit conductor connexion copper Coptic death density desert dielectric direction disk distance dynamo Edwards eggs Egyptian electric current electric force electrified electrodes electrolyte electromagnetic electromotive force electroscope elements England English equation Greek important induction insulated ions iron J. J. Thomson Khartum khedive king Kingdom land later Leyden jar London Lord Lord Kelvin Mahommed Malik Mamelukes measure Mehemet Mehemet Ali metal monuments native Nile Osman Digna Pasha period plane plate position potential pressure produced quantity railway reign result Roman solution strain stress Suakin Sudan sultan supply surface Syria temple theory tion tombs town traction troops unit Upper Egypt Wadi Halfa wire XIIth Dynasty
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