Note 6 — 1. Did the Nile, or a Branch of it, ever flow through the Libyan Desert to the Mediterranean?
Reading edition
‘Nouveaux Mémoires des Missions de la Compagnie de Jesus dans le Levant,’ Tome ii. (Paris, 1717), p. 74. This little book contains a map of Egypt, prepared by Father Sicard at Cairo in 1715, on which the “Mer sans eau” is shown with “bateaux petrifiez” depicted alongside it.