| John Russell Young - Egypt - 1879 - 778 pages
...green. Today the fields are parched, and brown, and cracked. The irrigating ditches are dry. You see the stumps of the last season's crop. But with the exception...blows over the plain and adds to the somberness of the scene. Here are hundreds of thousands of acres which, in a good year, would give generous crops. Now... | |
| John Russell Young - Egypt - 1879 - 756 pages
...green. Today the fields are parched, and brown, and cracked. The irrigating ditches are dry. You see the stumps of the last season's crop. But with the exception of a few clusters of the castor bean and some wear)-, drooping date palms, the earth gives forth no fruit. A gust of sand blows over the plain and... | |
| J. F. Packard - Voyages around the world - 1880 - 844 pages
...To-day the fields are parched and brown and cracked. The irrigating ditches are dry. You see the stalk stumps of the last season's crop. But with the exception...gust of sand blows over the plain and adds to the sombreness of the scene. Here are hundreds of thousands of acres which, in a good year, would give... | |
| J. F. Packard - Voyages around the world - 1880 - 832 pages
...To-day the fields are parched and brown and cracked. The irrigating ditches are dry. You see the stalk stumps of the last season's crop. But with the exception of a few 223 GRANT'S TOUR clusters of the castor bean and some weary, drooping date palms, the earth gives forth... | |
| J. F. Packard - Voyages around the world - 1880 - 840 pages
...To-day the fields are parched and brown and cracked. The irrigating ditches are dry. You see the stalk stumps of the last season's crop. But with the exception of a few 293 clusters of the castor bean and some weary, drooping date palms, the earth gives forth no fruit.... | |
| William S Mcfeely - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 612 pages
...irrigation ditches, into remote villages. The drought was severe (it was a year of a "bad Nile") and "with the exception of a few clusters of the castor...blows over the plain and adds to the somberness of the scene." There were anc1ent farm villages, and there was Luxor and Karnak and Thebes. The Grants missed... | |
| Richard Peet, Michael Watts - Business & Economics - 2004 - 468 pages
...palms, the eatth gives fotth no ftuit. A gust of sand blows ovet the plain and adds to the sombetness of the scene."4 Young, who had become as enchanted...with its ancient monuments, was appalled by the new Btitish suzetains' contemptuous attitude towatd both. "The Englishman," he obsetved, "looks upon these... | |
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