Egypt Past And Present Described And Illustrated With a Narrative of Its Occ
Egypt Past And Present Described And Illustrated With a Narrative of Its Occ
W H Davenport William Henry Davenport Adams
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in the distance, the yellow sandy hills are covered with remains of Saracenic architecture. To the right, the shattered walls of a convent mark the crest of a sand- stone eminence; and all around, between the desert and the river, the palm-groves cluster in verdurous masses. The word " Assouan " is the Coptic souan or suan, an " opening, " with the addition of the Arabic /, or " the, " softened into es or as* The town so called lies on the east branch of the Nile, near the frontier of Nubia, no... miles south of Thebes, in lat. 24 5' 23" north, and long. 32 55' east. Of old, this position was strategetically important ; was the watch-tower on the frontier between Egypt and the south ; the most commanding point near the First Catar- act, which, though no very formidable obstacle to modern navigation, must have been a serious obstruction before the great depression of the bed of the Nile. Syene, as it was called by the ancients, was the depot of the mer- chandise which passed between the north and the south.
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