Note 67 — Chapter XXIII · THE EGYPTIAN YEAR AND THE NILE.
Reading edition
The modern Egyptians still hold to the old months for irrigation. 7 Taba = January 15, is commencement of wheat irrigation; 30 Misra is the last safe date for sowing maize in the Delta; 1st Tut is the date of regulating the bridges = September 8 in Upper Egypt.