"By the walls of Thebesthe old city of a hundred gatesthe Nile spreads to a broad river the heights, which follow the stream on both sides, here take a more decided outline solitary, almost coneshaped peaks stand out sharply from the level background of the manycolored. limestone hills, on which no palmtree flourishes and in which no humble desertplant can strike root. Rocky crevasses and gorges cut more or less deeply into the mountain range, and up to its ridge extends the desert, destructive of all life, with sand and stones, with rocky cliffs and reeflike, desert hills. Behind the eastern range the desert spreads to the Red Sea behind the western it stretches without limit, into infinity. In the belief of the Egyptians beyond it lay the region of the dead. Between these two ranges of hills, which serve as walls or ramparts to keep back the desertsand, flows the fresh and bounteous Nile, bestowing blessing and abundance at once the father and the cradle of millions of beings."

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