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MAP OFEGYPT and the SOUDAN1904London: Stanford’s Geogl. Estabt.(Large-size)London: Edward Arnold.
MAP OFEGYPT and the SOUDAN1904London: Stanford’s Geogl. Estabt.(Large-size)London: Edward Arnold.
MAP OFEGYPT and the SOUDAN1904London: Stanford’s Geogl. Estabt.(Large-size)London: Edward Arnold.
MAP OFEGYPT and the SOUDAN1904
London: Stanford’s Geogl. Estabt.
(Large-size)
London: Edward Arnold.
FOOTNOTES:[1]1 metre = about 39 inches.[2]A cubic metre of water equals, roughly, 1 ton.[3]For the purpose of illustration, it is interesting to compare the discharge of the Thames at Teddington:Cubic Metres per Second.During June the average discharge for the twenty years ending 1902 was35The average in June, 1903, was178The discharge on June 21, 1903, was387On February 21, 1900, it was533And on November 18, 1894 (greatest on record), it was1,065I have given the discharge in cubic metres per second, the unit generally in use on the Nile. On the Thames the figures are usually given in gallons per day, which sounds much more imposing. If the number of cubic metres per second is multiplied by about 1,900,000, it gives approximately the number of gallons per day. But, after all, the discharge of the Thames in June, 1903, was not so very far below that of the Nile during the same month.[4]The Egyptian peasant, however, refuses to accept the prosaic evidence of his eyes about these rats, and, like the stout conservative he is, prefers to believe the old tradition that they turn to mud during the flood season. Many a man will gravely assert that he has himself observed the transformation actually in progress.[5]1 Kantar = nearly 100 lbs.[6]Cf.p. 71.[7]Estimated. £E1 = £1 0s. 6d.[8]Estimated.
[1]1 metre = about 39 inches.
[1]1 metre = about 39 inches.
[2]A cubic metre of water equals, roughly, 1 ton.
[2]A cubic metre of water equals, roughly, 1 ton.
[3]For the purpose of illustration, it is interesting to compare the discharge of the Thames at Teddington:Cubic Metres per Second.During June the average discharge for the twenty years ending 1902 was35The average in June, 1903, was178The discharge on June 21, 1903, was387On February 21, 1900, it was533And on November 18, 1894 (greatest on record), it was1,065I have given the discharge in cubic metres per second, the unit generally in use on the Nile. On the Thames the figures are usually given in gallons per day, which sounds much more imposing. If the number of cubic metres per second is multiplied by about 1,900,000, it gives approximately the number of gallons per day. But, after all, the discharge of the Thames in June, 1903, was not so very far below that of the Nile during the same month.
[3]For the purpose of illustration, it is interesting to compare the discharge of the Thames at Teddington:
I have given the discharge in cubic metres per second, the unit generally in use on the Nile. On the Thames the figures are usually given in gallons per day, which sounds much more imposing. If the number of cubic metres per second is multiplied by about 1,900,000, it gives approximately the number of gallons per day. But, after all, the discharge of the Thames in June, 1903, was not so very far below that of the Nile during the same month.
[4]The Egyptian peasant, however, refuses to accept the prosaic evidence of his eyes about these rats, and, like the stout conservative he is, prefers to believe the old tradition that they turn to mud during the flood season. Many a man will gravely assert that he has himself observed the transformation actually in progress.
[4]The Egyptian peasant, however, refuses to accept the prosaic evidence of his eyes about these rats, and, like the stout conservative he is, prefers to believe the old tradition that they turn to mud during the flood season. Many a man will gravely assert that he has himself observed the transformation actually in progress.
[5]1 Kantar = nearly 100 lbs.
[5]1 Kantar = nearly 100 lbs.
[6]Cf.p. 71.
[6]Cf.p. 71.
[7]Estimated. £E1 = £1 0s. 6d.
[7]Estimated. £E1 = £1 0s. 6d.
[8]Estimated.
[8]Estimated.
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