Capitolo 13
waters of the Nile and the surges of the Mediterranean held on a
eternal war, with energies so almost equal, what time, after the error of
eighteen one hundred years since the state of the dispute started to be
recorded, any side has been found to have earned some perceptible
advantage on the other. The river demolishes the sands and the sea
drive back incessantly them, while holding the whole line of the beach in
such condition as to do him/it extremely dangerous and difficult of
access to equip.
It will be obvious from this description of the valley of the Nile,,
what it formed a country that in isolated ancient durations and set apart,
in a very impressive way, from the whole rest of the world. It was completely
closes in from deserts, on every side, from earth; and the benches, and
sand-bars and the other dangers of navigation of which it marked the line the
you coast along, it seemed to prevent sea approach. Here he/she remained for a lot of centuries,
under the rule of his/her native own kings of venerable old man. Its population was
peaceful and industrious. His/her researchers were famous all over the world
for their culture, their science and their philosophy.
It was in these centuries, before the other nations were thrusted in on his
peaceful isolation that the Pyramids are been built, and the enormous one
monoliths carved, and those reareds of enormous times which ruined columns are
the now wonders of humanity. During these centuries remote, Egypt was also, as
now, the earth of the perpetual fertility and the abundance. There always
both corn in Egypt, wherever other famine would get mad. The nearby
nations and tribe in Arabia, Palestine and Syria, find their way to
it, accordingly through the deserts on the oriental side, when driven from
desire, and so it opened a way of communication. For a long time the Persian one
monarchs, after having extended their empire turned to west to the Mediterranean,
you find accessed from the same road Pelusium, and for this motive it overflowed and
conquered the country. Finally, approximately two hundred and fifty years before