Note 7 — 1. Did the Nile, or a Branch of it, ever flow through the Libyan Desert to the Mediterranean?

See “Particulars concerning the Valley of the Natron Lakes, and that of the Old Bed of the River” (with map) by Andreossi, General of Artillery, in ‘Memoirs Relative to Egypt, Written in That Country during the Campaigns of General Bonaparte in the Years 1798 and 1799, by the Learned and Scientific Men who Accompanied the French Expedition’ (London, 1800), p. 270.