The Dawn of Astronomy. a Study of the Temple-Worship And Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians
The Dawn of Astronomy. a Study of the Temple-Worship And Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920
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Day by day and night by night, its turbid tide sweeps onward majestically over the parched sands of the waste, howling wilderness. Almost hourly, as we slowly ascended it before the Etesian wind, we heard the thundering fall of some mud-bank, and saw, by the rush of all animated Nature to the spot, that the Nile had overleapt another obstruction, and that its bounding waters were diffusing life and joy through another desert. There are few impressions I ever received upon the remembrance of whi...ch I dwell with more pleasure than that of seeing the first burst of the Nile into one of the great channels of its annual overflow. All Nature shouts for joy. The men, the children, the buffaloes, gambol in its refreshing waters, the broad waves sparkle with shoals of fish\ and fowl of every wing flutter over them in clouds. Nor is this jubilee of Nature confined to tlie higher orders of creation. The moment the sand becomes moistened by the * ** Monumental Egypt," chapter i. 232 THE DAWN OF ASTRONOMY.
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