...and the answer of Amrou exhibits a lively and not unfaithful picture of that singular country.1" " O commander of the faithful, " Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, be" twten a pulverised mountain and a red sand. The distance " from Syene to the sea is a month1s jouruey...

...singular country *. " O commander of c HA p. " the faithful, Egypt is a compound of black earth LI. " and green plants, between a pulverised mountain "...distance from Syene to " the sea is a month's journey for an horseman. " Along the valley descends a river, on which the " blessing of the Most High reposes...

...and the answer of Ann ou exhibits a lively and not unfaithful picture of that singular country12*. " O commander of the faithful, Egypt is a compound of...pulverised "mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syenc "• to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman. Along "the valley descends a river, on which...

...commander of the faithful, Egypt is a com" pound of black earth and green plants, be" tweeu a pulverized mountain and a red sand. " The distance from Syene to the sea is a i Eutychius. AnnaI, torn, ii, p. 320. Elmacin. Hist. Saracen, p. 35. m On these obscure canals, the...

...Amalekites; and the answer of Amrou exhibits a lively and not unfaithful picture of that singular country." " O commander of the faithful, Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syene to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman....

...commander of the faithful, Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syene to...horseman. Along the valley descends a river, on which the blessings of the Most High reposes both in the evening and morning, and which rises and falls with...

...his answer would augment rather than diminish his romantic conceptions of this singular country. " O, Commander of the Faithful ! Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syene to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman....

...which Amrou had added to his empire, the latter sent him a description of it, as follows : — " Oh ! commander of the faithful ! Egypt is a compound of...plants, between a pulverised mountain and a red sand, (meaning the shore.) The distance from Syene (now commonly known as the first cataract of the Nile,...

...caliph ; which was as follows : " Egypt, O commander of the Faithful, is a compound of black earth J and green plants, between a pulverised mountain and...distance from Syene to the sea is a month's journey for an horseman. Along the valley descends a river, on which the blessing of the most High reposes both...

...Calif Omar, though drawn twelve hundred years ago, is true even at the present day. He said to Omar : " O commander of the faithful, Egypt* is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syene * Gibbon's Decline aud Fall, London 8vo...