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Title: A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893 Barnum, Samuel W. (Samuel Weed), 1820-1891, ed
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Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
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s in Egyptabout the summer solstice, and the inundation com-mences about two months later. The greatestheight is attained about or somewhat after the au-tumnal equinox. The inundation lasts about threemonths.—Cultivation, Agriculture, &c. The ancientprosperity of Egypt is attested by the Bible as wellas by the numerous monuments of the country.As early as the age of the Great Pyramid it musthave been densely populated. The contrast of thepresent state of Egypt to its former prosperity ismore to be ascribed to political than to physi-cal causes. Egypt has lost all strength and energy.It is naturally an agricultural country. As far backas the days of Abraham, we find that, when the prod- ! uce failed in Palestine, Egypt was the natural re-source. In the time of Joseph it was evidentlythe granary, at least during famines, of the nations I around. The inundation, as taking the place ofrain, has always rendered the system of agricul-ture peculiar; and the artificial irrigation during
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254 EGY EGY the time of low Nile is necessarily on the sameprinciple. Watering with the foot (Deut. xi. 10,11) may refer to some mode of irrigation by amachine, but the monuments do not afford a rep-resentation of it. (Agriculture.) That now called

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