Capitolo 12
of the coast, rather than to some changes served as the action of the
river.
The Delta of the Nile is so same level, and so few raised above of the
level of the Mediterranean, that earth almost seems a continuation of
the same surface with the sea, only instead of old blue waters with
whence you white-provide of crest, we have drawn wide of undulant, and kind wheat
long sea of earth they crowned with small villages and villages. In to draw near the
you coast along, the navigator has not seen distant of this whole vegetable and the beauty.
It lies so least that continues under of the horizon until the ship it is
closes on the beach. The first miliary stones, in fact, what the sailor
ago it is the tops of trees that grow out evidently some water or the,
top of an obelisk or the capital of a pillar, marking the place of
of the ancient and falling city.
The more Oriental of the channels from that the waters of the discovery of river
their way through the Delta to the sea, has called, as you/he/she will be seen
marked on the map, the branch of Pelusiac. It almost forms the border
of the fertile region of the Delta on the oriental side. There was a
ancient city name near Pelusium his mouth. This was, clearly,
the first Egyptian city arrived by those from what they arrived from earth the
toward east, traveling along the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea. On
account of his to mark so the oriental frontier of the country, it
become a point of the great importance, and you/he/she is mentioned in often the
histories of ancient times.
The westernmosts speak to emphatic way of the Nile, on the other hand you/he/she had called the
Canopic speaks to emphatic way. The distance along the coast from the mouth of Canopic to
Pelusium was approximately one hundred miles. The contour of the coast was
previously, as he/she anchors continuous to be, very irregular and the water
little depth. Banks it extended of sand they stuck out in the sea and the sea
it, as if in retaliation, innumerable and formed streams and inlets, and
lagoons in the earth. Along this irregular and uncertain border the