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In Shape Egypt Is Like A Lily With A Crooked Stem. A Broad Blossom
Terminates It At Its Upper End; A Button Of A Bud Projects From The
Stalk A Little Below The Blossom, On The Left-Hand Side. The Broad
Blossom Is The Delta, Extending From Aboosir To Tineh, A Direct Distance
Of A Hundred And Eighty Miles, Which The Projection Of The Coast--The
Graceful Swell Of The Petals--Enlarges To Two Hundred And Thirty. The
Bud Is The Fayoum, A Natural Depression In The Hills That Shut In The
Nile Valley On The West, Which Has Been Rendered Cultivable For Many
Thousands Of Years By The Introduction Into It Of The Nile Water,
Through A Canal Known As The "Bahr Yousouf."