Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
1. Introduction. 2. Nomenclature. 3. Description of the course of the Nile. 4. Slopes and velocities of the Nile in its different reaches. 5. Catchment basins of the Nile and its tributaries. 6. The climate of the Nile valley. 7. The geology of the Nile valley. 8. The discharg...
40. =The Oases.=--The chief oases[6] of the Libyan desert--Dakhla, Kharga, Baharia and Farafra,--occupy extensive depressions cut down through the horizontal Eocene strata[7] to...
9. CHAPTER IV.31. =Projects.=--No account of the Nile in 1904 would be complete without an enumeration and slight examination of the projects before the public for the provision of sufficient...
7. CHAPTER II.9. =Lake Victoria Nyanza.=--Lake Victoria, the true source of the Nile, lies on the Equator, and fed by abundant rains and numerous streams, discharges its surplus waters over t...
8. CHAPTER III.24. =The Nile in flood.=--We are now in a position to apply our knowledge of the Nile and its tributaries to an examination of the behaviour of the rivers in flood and in time o...
6. CHAPTER I.1. =Introduction.=--In the introduction to his brilliant essay on the Hydrology of the Nile[1], an essay, which, though written in 1865, foreshadowed much of what we know to day...
5. CHAPTER V. _The oases and the geology of Egypt by H.J.L.40. The oases. 41. Dakhla oasis. 42. Kharga oasis. 43. Baharia oasis. 44. Farafra oasis. 45. The geology of Egypt. 46. Igneous rocks. 47. Sedimentary rocks. 48. Upper cretaceous...
2. CHAPTER II. _The tributaries of the Nile_--(Page 26).9. Lake Victoria Nyanza. 10. The Victoria Nile. 11. The Semliki river. 12. Lake Albert Nyanza. 13. The Albert Nile. 14. The Gazelle river. 15. The Zeraf river. 16. The Sobat riv...
1. CHAPTER I. _The Nile_--(Page 11).1. Introduction. 2. Nomenclature. 3. Description of the course of the Nile. 4. Slopes and velocities of the Nile in its different reaches. 5. Catchment basins of the Nile and it...
4. CHAPTER IV. _Projects_--(Page 73).31. Projects. 32. The raising of the Assuân dam. 33. The Wady Rayan reservoir and escape. 34. The Albert Lake and Nile project. 35. Flood protection for Egypt. 36. Complete proj...
3. CHAPTER III. _The utilisation of the Nile_--(Page 56).24. The Nile in flood. 25. The Nile in low supply. 26. Nile water. 27. The soil of the Nile Valley. 28. Basin irrigation. 29. Perennial irrigation. 30. Flood protection.