[PDF] The Restoration Of The Ancient Irrigation Works Of The Tigris Or The Re Creation Of Chaldea eBook

Author : Sir William Willcocks
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230420851

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... EGYPT FIFTY YEARS HENCE "THE Garden of the Lord" was the epithet applied to Egypt by Eastern writers over four thousand years ago. "Vidi viridem Egyptum" was the observation of the Roman traveller of two thousand years ago. "Green, inexpressibly green, is the vale known as the land of Egypt" was the observation of the English traveller of fifty years ago. What will the Nile Valley appear like to the traveller of fifty years hence? Green it will surely be; but it will be no longer a beacon pointing to the permanent prosperity which the irrigation systems of the ancient world could confer on a country. It will be a beacon showing what modern irrigation and modern science can do to develop agricultural wealth. The giant works in progress and in contemplation will have put their impress on the country with no light hand. His Highness Abbas Hilmy, counselled by Lord Cromer, a guide as sage and as reliable as ever advised Pharaoh or Khalif, is carrying out works which will have taken us far beyond the great days of the Pharaohs of the 12th Dynasty, the Amenemhats and the Usartesens, whose works have left an impression on Egypt which has survived the revolutions and the catastrophes of four thousand years. The modern Egypt, which we see to-day, whose foundation stone was laid by His Highness' predecessor, the great Mohamed All, counselled and advised by the eminent Frenchmen whom he delighted to honour, will, in all human probability, be completed to its very summit by His Highness Abbas Hilmy himself, who will see Egypt attain a height of splendour and magnificence which no predecessor of his ever saw; no not Ramses nor Thotmes. Before proceeding to the description of the country as I think it will be fifty years hence, it may be well to sound...

Author : William Willcocks
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2015-02-08
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ISBN : 9781294960294

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Author : William Willcocks
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2013-11-14
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ISBN : 9781295328284

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