Show the macj of Egypt egypt says herodotus is a gift of the nile A truer or more pregnant word was never spoken of course it is just equally true in a way that bengal is a gift of alie ganges and that louisiana and arkansas are a gift of the dippi but with this difference that in tha case of the nile the dependence is fait nore obvious far freer from disturbing or distracting details for that reason and also because the nile is so much more familiar to most english speaking folk than the american rivers I 1 choose egypt as my type of a regular batih order to understand it fruy you stop all your in cairo and to eDelta you view it only from the terrace of Shep heards hotel or the rocky platform of the great pyramid at must push up country early to lexor luxor and the first cataract it is up country ahat egypt unrolls itself visibly before your eyes in the very process of making it is there that the full im contance cor tance of good rich black and first forces itself upon you by undeniable evidence cornhill magazine |