Identifier: historyherodotus02hero (find matches)
Title: The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Herodotus Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902 Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, Sir, 1810-1895 Wilkinson, John Gardner, Sir, 1797-1875
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. See the boat or ark ofXou (Nef; in the Temple of Elephantinein PI. 56, 57 of Dr. Young and theEgyptian Society. Of the appearanceof the God he says, id quod pro Deocolitur, non eandem eflEigiem habet,quam vulgo Diis artifices accommoda-verunt, umbriculo maxime similis esthabitus, smaragdis et gemmis coagmen-tatus: but the word umhriculo has per-plexed all commentators. All the cultivable spots, abounding■with springs, in that desert, are calledWah ; the chief of which are the See-wah, the Little Oasis, the Wah sur-named e Dakhleh, i. e., the inner,or western, and the Wah el Khargeh,the outer Oasis, to the east of it,which is the Great Oasis. The others,of El Ilayz, Farafreh, and the Oases ofthe Blacks, in the interioi-, to the west-ward, are small, and some of them onlytemporarily inhabited; but those abovementioned are productive, and aboundin palms, fruit-trees, rice, barley, andvarious productions. They are not, asoften supposed, cultivated spots in the 40 LITTLE OASIS. Look IL
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Chap. 32, INTEEIOE OF LIBYA. 41 the course of conversation with Etearchiis, the Ammonian king,the talk fell upon the Nile, hoAv that its sources were υηΙαιοΛνηto all men. Etearchus upon this mentioned that some Nasa-monians^ had once come to his court, and when asked if theycould give any information concerning the uninhabited parts ofLibya, had told the following tale. (The Nasamonians are aLibyan race who occupy the Syrtis, and a tract of no great sizetowards the east.^) They said there had grown up among themsome \Yild young men, the sons of certain chiefs, who, when theycame to mans estate, indulged in all manner of extravagancies,and among other things drew lots for five of their number to goand explore the desert parts of Libya, and try if they could notpenetrate further than any had done previously. (The coast ofLibya along the sea which washes it to the north, throughout itsentire length from Egypt to Cape Soloeis,^ w^hich is its furthestpoint, is inhabited by Libyans

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