ABSTRACT
The lowest Nile ever known seems to have been that of A.D. 966, when the waters rose only to twelve cubits, seventeen digits: and the next lowest was in A.D. 1199, when it rose only four digits higher. For four centuries before the earliest of these dates, the Nile had only six times failed to reach fourteen cubits; and about twenty times only had it stopped short of fifteen cubits. Not only did the Nile cease to flow at the base of the Nilometer on the Geezeh side; it left a long and broad island, where fragments of ancient constructions were observed. The waters had considerably sunk in the month of January; and they continued to sink till men and horses could pass the river by fording in several places.
