Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-24

] focsst forms inc kipun faust Twelve
| feet high IN latitude o 20 north aud
/ longitude a. go, cas-. Proceeding ia a
uofihweroflv direction b forms tho
I kauma and the Mufchison Fails and
/ JOINS the Albert MANIA Emerging
/ irum this second reservoir, The White
| Nile or hf 81 Abiad Of the Arabs, till
/ keeps 10 the northwest, and through a
| country recently opened 90 BY the late
/ General Gordon and his licuicnanis,
/ goes onward 10 Coudokofo. The great
dcnoi OF The iviy dealers, 1900 feet
above The sea. Oscf a gently undulat.
| inr plain with many windings but no
/ great descent, u strikes to the uouh.
4 west, and afterwards 10 the northeast
/ for nearly 500 miles, receiving 10
| latitude o. IS north Us hrst rfCat
anluen', the bahr cl.Gaxil, or CaE lie
| uvcf, a slow ind shallow stream from
the west Taxing an easlcfly direction
Tor eighty miles, aud cufying southwafd
for thirty miles. II Is augmented by the
waters ui the Giraffe and the lobat,
alter which ID takes nouhvfly course,
Nth toll and Tranquil cuuent, and a
breadth varying from 100 to /, 600 feet,
| Tor nearly 40 miles. Thus u arrives At
| Khariom, the capital Of Nubia, IA l.ati.
iude i5 81 nurin Here Il Is that i re-
ceiyes the river which Tor generations
was supposed TO be- the Nilc-thc liver
which the adventurous Bruce traced 10
rs iountains-thc Blue Nile, OF Blhr Il
Azfck. II Is formed by the junction Of
the Aual (which rises IN Abyssinia, fifty
miles from Lake Domhca and 81 100 feet
above the seal and the Blue River,
which has ITS sources in the southern
highlands. and Is fed BY the Bender
aud the Shimla.
AZ Khariom the Hue Nile Is 5oS yards
wide and the White Nile only ass yards;
but the latter Il much deeper, and is
low OF water more continuous. Flow
log north Tor sixty miles across wide
pasture plains. and past lialiara and
ancient Mcfoc, the Nile arrives at Us
first cataract, OF rather rapid, which Is
the seventh counting from the rivers
mouth. Rolling onward, u passes
Shcndy and receives n ~ Damsr On
latitude ~ as north the Atbara, or
! Tacazzc or las u IS oilen called In AZ
lusion to 10 muddy watefsl the Bahr 81.
Aswad, or Black River.
From this point the great river
tfavcrsca lot 40 miles the rich, well
J cultivated. and numcrously inhabited
country OF the Bcfbtu. to enter on a
widely different regional wilderness OF
sand, barren aud desolatc, where the
ruins OF antiquity lie overwhelmed by
the sandstomi of centuries. Below the
island OF Mogreb In latitude 49, norlhl
Il bends sharply to the souih.westwari,
three catafacis or rapids marking this
part OF is course. ltthen takes a north.
westerly direction, crosses the desert OF
Bahiouda, iofms another cataract
DIVORCES TO the northeast. and flows
through the rapids OF Wady Halia.
passes, In a much narrower valley. the
ruins Of AbouSimflel. DER. Ghifsehi
Housicyn, Dcndour aad kalabsche and
at Assoyan laueicnily Lyenel IN latitude
az s. 3W north, descrnds into upper
Egypt by Us largest cataract, which Is
the seventh from It's source, OF the FIRST
from IT, mouth. All these catafaeis are
really rapids which almost disappear
when the Nile Is At Is height during the
PERIOD OF the annual inundation. They
arc caused by the cneroaehment Of the
rocks upon the Tiyef.ehannel, which,
dividing Into several small streams
pnurs It's waters through the cfaggy
dctlrs with considerable fury.
The Nile In It's course through Egypt
passes aucccssiycly the quffries Of
Sisilch on the east, Edfoo and Esnci on
the west, the wonderful palace temples
and memorials OF Thebes, with Luxor
and karmak, on the east, and Mcdinet.
/ Aboo on the west; then ClWeh and
siont on the west. aud the tombs OF
Benz hassan on the east. In due time u
reaches the ruins OF Memphis and the
Pyramids, all on the west bank, and
leaving Cairo with Is mosques and
minafits, ON the east, spreads out into
the numerous arms which form the celc'
bfaied region OF the Delta. From
Assouan 10 the sea It's average fall Is
only two inches In $50 yards, and is
average velocity does not exceed three
miles an hour. Its direction Is almost
, due north, with occasional dufauous 10
, the east aud northwest. The triangular
area. which derives ils name from a
Greek letter, begins at a point about
! | Ig1 miles from the two Chief mouths OF
the river, the Roset and Damieiia
/ mouth aud stretches along the Mcdiier'
, ranean coast in net work Of streams
. and Islands iof about $50 miles.
, The rise OF the Nile Is due TO the
. periodical rains OF eastern Abyssinia
and the countries further south, and on
their greater or less quantity depends
on the height Of the inuudalion. This
/ height Is carefully noted, as the extent
OF land subjected 10 irrigation, and the
. length OF tic time during which Il will
remain under water. are regulated by ~
and hence the occurrence OF a good OF
bad harvest may be predicted with Ger
/ tainty. The ordinary rise ht Cairo Il
, from - 10 IS feet. less IS insufficient, aud
. more II dangerous, frequently over.
whelming whole villages. a lise Of only
rs or 20 icet means famine, and illod
/ OF the height OF 20 means ruin
. The lands, thus strangely irrigated,
will yield annually three crops, hfsi
being sown with wheat or barley a 81 c.
, ond time, alter the spring equinox with
cotton, milct, indigo, OF some s.mi 10
] produce, aud thirdly, about tie summer
! solstice with mllct and maize. The
river begins 10 rise about the end of
{ lunc, and aitains IL maximum between
. the goth and 3olh Of September. AZ
I ! this time the country WcaB ylrY
b singular aspect ION the elevated bank
{ | you stand, a. d were between two seas, -
! writes Eliot War1uuon Ia his book,
{ entitled "lhc Crescent and tie Cross"
} | on one side rolls a swollen lufbld food
, OF q blood.Tod hue; on the other lie, an
3 Z eNpanse Of seemingly shgntnl water,
3 . extending to the desert boundary OF the
3 valley. the Isolated villages, ciTcled with
! groves Of palm, being shattered over Il
{ I like loating Islands, aud the pisc OF
, dixie, AT riding the sole clfcuit0us inter,
, communication between them, When
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