Note 749 — Chapter XXIII · “THE NILE IS EGYPT”
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Papyrus Sallier, II. On the other hand, another hymn speaks of the unkindness of the Nile in bringing about the destruction of fish, but it is the river at its lowest (first half of June) that is meant. See Records of the Past, being English translations of ancient monuments of Egypt and Western Asia (ed. S. Birch, vols. I.-XII. 1873-81), IV. 3, and ibid., new series (A. H. Sayce), III. 51.