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EGYPT AND THE NILE
One feature of the Nile remains to be noticed, namely, the
quality of the water. Ancients and moderens, with one voice,
declare it to be the most pleasant and nutritive in the world.
Why it should be so, Plato could not conceive, but he states
such to be the case; and he relates that the Egyptian priests
refrained from giving it to their bull-god Apis on account of
its fattening properties,
376
Savary, in his "Letters on Egypt", says, in a note, that
Ptolemy Philadelphus, marrying his daughter Berenice to
Antiochus king of Syria, sent her water from the Nile, which
alone she would drink, that the kings of Persia sent for the
waters of the Nile and sal ammoniac, and that the Egyptians
are the only people who preserve the waters of the Nile in
sealed vases1.
and drink it when it is old with the same pleasure
that we do old wine. The same author bears his own testimony
to the agreeable qualities of the water of the Nile,
The waters of the Nile, also lighter, softer, and more
agreeable to the taste than any I know, greatly influence the
health of the inhabitants. All antiquity acknowledges their
excellence, and the people certainly drink them with a kind of
Being avidity without being ever injured by the quantity.
lightly impregnated with nitre, they are only a gentle aperient
to those who take them to excess,
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