A Description of the First or Aswan, Cataract of the Nile. By Dr. John Ball. Pp. 121; with 13 maps and plates, and 20 illustrations in the text. (Cairo: National Printing Department, 1907.) ...

More than 3,000 years ago, between the first and second cataracts on the West Bank and the Nile, the Egyptian Pharaoh commanded a colossal temple, and a smaller one along with it, to be carved out of ...

broken by cataracts, meandering, sometimes almost lost in swamps, often muddy, often turbulent, but on the whole predictable and laden with useful silt. In the Nile’s career Ludwig sees a ...