INDEX

A

Abai river, 13

Abu Zeid ford, 42

Abydos spring level, 67

Abyssinia, 13, 19, 43

Adarma, 45

Addis Ababa, 16, 20, 44, 214

Aird, Sir John, 75

Akobo, 37

Albert Lake, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 29, 30, 31

— — reservoir, 81, 82, 87, 90

— — tributaries, 31

Albert Nile in 1841, 38

— — catchment basin, 17, 119

— — description, 31-35

— — observed discharges, 129-134

— — discharges, 22, 56, 81, 82, 93

— — discharge table, 144, 145

— — gauges, 168-174

— — projects, 58, 81, 89-92

— — slopes, 14, 120

— — tributaries, 31, 32, 34

— — velocities, 15, 121

Alexandria, 20, 220

Ambatch, 31, 92

Amenemhat, 47, 66, 79

Analysis of water and soil, 62, 100-101

Anderson, Mr. Lang, 64

Appendices, 117

Arab, Bahr el, 36

Assiout Weir, 49, 150

Asua River, 32

Assuân gauge compared to Bombay rainfall, 213

— dam, 48, 61, 75, 76, 77, 87, 89

— distances from and to, 124, 125

— discharges, 25, 58-60, 139-142

— discharge table, 150

— gauges, 48, 52, 94, 97, 98, 153, 158, 164-166, 194-202, 209

— meteorological data, 20, 218

Atem river, 32, 33, 90

Atbara river, catchment basin, 17, 19, 119

— — description, 13, 45, 69

— — discharges, 24, 47, 58, 60, 138-140

— — discharge table, 149

— — gauges at Khashm el Girba, 188, 189

— — tributaries, 45

B

Baharia Oasis, 109

Baker, Sir Benjamin, 75

Baker, Sir Samuel, 11, 34, 39, 40

Barometric readings, 215-220

Barois, M. J., 61, 62

Barrages, The, 50, 53, 54, 74, 82, 99, 123, 124, 151, 152, 207, 208

Basalt, 22, 114

Basin irrigation, 59, 65, 66, 67, 68, 79, 93, 94, 99, 100, 159-166

— — in the Sudan, 102

Beadnell, Mr. H. G. F., 107

Beresford, Mr. J. S., 89

Berkeley, Fort, 31

Berber, 46, 217

— gauges, 190-193

Blue Nile, catchment basin, 17, 119

— — description, 12, 13, 18, 21, 41, 43, 61

— — observed discharges, 129, 136, 137

— — discharges, 24, 46, 57, 60, 139-141

— — discharge table, 147, 148

— — distances along, 128

— — gauges, 179-182, 183-187

— — projects, 43, 44, 103

— — slope, 15

— — tributaries, 44

— — velocities, 44

Bombay, 20, 213

Bor, 32, 89, 99

Brown, Sir Hanbury, 66, 77, 79, 89, 99

C

Cairo, 16, 20, 22, 24, 25, 50, 52, 53, 59, 94, 97, 98, 142, 150, 158, 164-166, 219

— gauges, 203-206, 210

Cassel, Sir Ernest, 75

Cataracts, 14, 46, 47, 48, 88, 102, 103

Catchment basins, 16, 18, 119

Chapters, 11, 26, 56, 73, 107

Chavanne, Joseph, 12

Chélu Bey, 5

Choga, Lake, 15, 28, 30, 121, 122

Clifton, Mr. C., 77

Climate of the Nile Valley, 18, 27, 102, 214-220

Congo forest, 29

Conversion tables for pics and metres, 211, 212

Corvée, 70

Cotton, 82, 88, 102, 103, 104

Course of the Nile, 12

Cretaceous, 111

Cromer, Lord, 100

Cultivated area of Egypt, 73

D

Dakhla Oasis, 107

Damer, El, 13, 45

Damietta branch, 14, 15, 53, 54, 60, 61, 70, 85, 123, 139, 140

— — discharge table, 152

— — gauges, 208

Darfur, 17

D’Arnaud, 38

De Gottberg, 47

De la Motte, 74

Didessa, 44

Dinder river, 17, 21, 44, 101

Diodorus Siculus, 78

Discharges observed, 129-138

Discharge table for Assuân, Assiout & Cairo, 150

— — — Damietta branch, 152

— — — Duem, 146

— — — Gondokoro, 144

— — — Khashm el Girba, 149

— — — Khartoum, 148

— — — Mongalla, 145

— — — Ripon Falls, 143

— — — Rosetta branch, 151

— — — Sobat river, 145

— — — Tewfikia, 146

— — — Wadelai, 144

— — — Wady Haifa, 151

Distances of places along the Damietta and Rosetta branches, 123

Distance Barrage to Assuân, 124

— Assuân to Khartoum, 125

— Khartoum to Gondokoro, 126

— Gondokoro to the Ripon Falls, 127

— Khartoum to Rosaires, 128

Discharges, 18, 22, 56-60, 81-84, 90, 95, 139-142, 159-163

— Victoria Nile, 27

— Semliki river, 29

— Lake Albert, 29

— Albert Nile, 32-34

— Gazelle river, 35

— Zeraf river, 36

— Sobat river, 37

— White Nile, 41

— Blue Nile, 43-44

— Atbara, 45

Discharges Nile at Khartoum, 46

— — — Assuân, 49

— — — Cairo, 52

— — — Rosetta and Damietta branches, 55

Dongola, 47

Drainage, 69

Drury, Lt., R.N., 41

Duem, 42, 43, 46, 57, 135, 141, 146, 178

Dueru, Lake, 29

Dufile, 13, 31, 90

Dulaib Hilla. 37, 134, 145, 176

Dupuis, Mr. C., 5, 43, 44, 101, 103

E

Eads, Mr., 86

Edku, Lake, 64

Edward, Lake Albert, 12, 29

— — — tributaries, 29

Egypt, 25, 73, 85, 87, 88, 93, 99, 100

Emin Pasha, 40

Electrical development possible, 28, 29, 31, 103

Elephantine Island, 48

Eocene, 112

Esna shales, 112,

Evaporation, 27, 30, 41, 43, 44, 96

F

Farafra, 110

Fayoum, The, 66, 79, 81

Fitzmaurice, Mr. Maurice, 75

Floods, 70, 71, 72, 85, 87, 88, 98

Foaden, Mr. G. P., 61, 63, 103

Fola Rapids, 14, 31

Fowera, 14, 28

Fuller, Mr. J. B., 69

G

Gaash river, 21, 45, 46, 101, 103

Gage’s channel, 34

Garak depression, 81

Garstin, Sir W. E., 5, 11, 12, 26, 29, 32, 41, 75, 82, 83, 85, 88, 89, 91, 92, 99, 101

Gauges, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 117, 153

— Assuân, 194-201, 209

— Assuân Reservoir, 202

— Berber, 190-193

— Cairo, 203-206

— Damietta branch, 208

— Duem, 178

— Dulaib Hilla, 176

— Gondokoro, 169-172

— Jinja, 166

— Khartoum, 183-187

— Khasm el Girba, 188-189

— Mongalla 173-174

— Nasser, 175

— Rosetta branch, 207

— Tewfikia, 177

— Wad Medani, 179-182

— Wadelai, 168

Gazelle river, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 35, 40, 56, 83, 129, 133

— — discharges, 139, 140

— — tributaries, 36

Gebel, Bahr-el-, 12

Gebelain, 42

Geology, 21, 110

Gessi Pasha, 40

Gezireh, 100, 102, 103

Ghaba Shambe, 32, 37, 41

Gold, 114

Gondokoro, 23, 32, 56, 90, 91, 119, 122, 126, 127, 139, 140, 141

— gauges, 169-172

— discharge table, 144

Gordon, 40

Gosrejeb, 45

Green water, 61

Granites, 21, 111

H

Hansard, Mr., 5

Herodotus, 78, 80

Hewat, Mr. Marshal, 77

Hillet Nuer, 33, 34, 40, 83, 84

Hughes, Mr. Frank, 64, 100

I

Ibrahim Effendi Fehmy, 105

Igneous rocks, 111

Infiltration, 53, 59, 60, 81, 84, 90

Introduction, 11

Irrigation, 65, 66, 68, 69, 93, 96, 97, 99, 102, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 159-163.

Ismail Pasha Ayub, 40

J

Jinja gauge, 167

K

Kafr Zayat, 54

Kagera river, 12, 26, 28

Kalabsha, 74

Kamlin, 21, 24, 46

Kankar, 21

Karanain, 54

Kassala, 46

Kharga oasis, 109

Khartoum 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 24, 43, 44, 46, 57, 60, 100, 135-142, 216

— distances to and from, 125, 126, 128

— discharge table, 148

— gauges, 183-187

Khasm el Girba, 45, 138

— discharge table, 149

— gauges 188, 189

Kit river, 32

Kom Ombos, 22, 113

Kordofan, 17

Kushesha, 78

L

Lado, 40

Lepsius, 47

Letheby, 61, 62

Linant Pasha, 42, 55

Limestone, 22, 114

— Nodular, 21

Lolle, 35, 84

Lombardini, Elia, 5, 11, 12, 38, 60

Luxor, 22

Lyons, Capt. H.G., 5, 11, 18, 21, 26, 27, 33, 44, 84

M

Mackenzie, Dr., 62

Manures, 63, 69

Marno, Signor, 40, 84

Martyr, Col., 41

Mean low water levels, 94, 158

Megahid channel, 35

Mehemet Ali, Viceroy, 38, 54, 68, 73, 74

Menes, 79

Meteorological data, 214-220

Miocene, 113

Mississippi river, 33

Mœris Lake, 66, 74, 76, 78, 81

Mongalla, 132

— discharge table, 145

— gauges, 173, 174

N

Napoleon, 48

Nasser, 37

— gauge, 175

Navigation, 14, 28, 32, 44

Nero, 38

Nile, The, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 21, 46, 47, 49, 56, 58-61, 67, 93, 99, 164-166

— discharge tables, 150, 158

— distances along, 124, 125

— gauges, 190-206

— slopes, 120

— velocities, 121-122

Nitrates, 22, 69, 115

No, Lake, 14, 34, 35, 82, 83, 84

Nomenclature, 12

O

Oases, 107

Omdurman, 43

P

Papyrus, 31, 32, 42

Payen, Champion and Gastinel, 63

Peake, Major, R. A., 41

Peat, 21

Percolation, see Infiltration.

Perennial irrigation, 59, 68, 69, 88, 93

Phosphates, 22, 115

Pibor river, 37

Pics converted to metres, 98, 209, 210

Plates, List of, 9

Pliocene, 113

Porphyry, 114

Projects, 44, 58, 73, 84

— Raising Assuân dam, 75

— Wady Rayan Reservoir, 76

— Lake Albert Reservoir and river training, 81

— Flood protection for Egypt, 85

— Complete for the Nile, 87

— Sir William Garstin’s projects, 89

— Conversion of basin to perennial irrigation, 93

— Development of the Sudan, 100

Prompt, M., 74

R

Rahad river, 17, 21, 44, 101

Rainfall, 17-21, 27, 30, 41, 43, 45, 56, 59, 103, 213

— tables, 214-220

Rameses, 48, 86

Red water, 61, 75

Reservoirs, 30, 73, 75, 76, 77

Ripon Falls, 12, 27, 28, 127, 139-141, 143, 166

Roda gauge, 50

— gauges, 203-206

Rohl river, 36

Rosaires, 13, 14, 44, 128

Rosetta branch, 14, 15, 33, 53, 60, 61, 85, 86, 87, 89, 139, 140

— — discharge table, 151

— — distances, 123

— — gauges, 207

— — velocities, 121

Ross, Col. Justin, 77

Rudolf, Lake, 16

Ruenzori, Mountain, 16, 21, 29

S

Salaama river, 13, 45

Sandstone, Nubian, 24, 112, 114

Sayce, Rev., Professor, 79

Schweinfurth, Dr., 36, 39, 85

Scott-Moncrieff, Sir Colin, 3, 74

Scour and deposit of silt, 44, 92, 95, 99

Semliki river, 12, 29

Sennaar, 14, 44

Semna Cataract, 47

Sesostris, 66

Settit river, 13, 45

Silsila, 21, 74, 112

Slopes, 14, 47, 48, 49, 53, 120, 157

Sobat River, 12, 13, 15, 23, 35, 36, 37, 56, 61, 82, 84, 119, 129, 134, 139-141

— — discharge table, 145

— — gauges, 175, 176

— — slopes, 120

— — velocities, 121

— — tributaries, 37

Soil analysis, 45, 61, 63, 64, 100, 101

Sparkes, Col., 40

Speke and Grant, 11

Strabo, 78

Storage, see Projects

Suakin-Khartoum railway, 100

Subject matter, 7, 8

Subsoil water, 63, 67

Sudan, 88, 100, 102, 103, 105, 106

Sudd region, 13, 16, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 56, 57, 58, 82, 83

T

Temperatures, 19, 20, 21, 214-220

Tewfikieh, 41, 134, 139, 140, 141

— discharge table, 146

— gauge, 177

Thebes, 67

Tributaries of Lake Albert, 31

— — the Albert Nile, 31, 32, 34

— — — Atbara, 45

— — — Blue Nile, 44

— — — Lake Edward, 29

— — — Gazelle river, 36

— — — Sobat river, 36

— — — Lake Victoria, 28

— — — Victoria Nile, 29

Trough of the Nile, cubic contents, 155

Tsana Lake, 13, 15, 43, 45, 88, 103, 129

Tumat river, 44

U

Uganda, 29, 130

V

Velocities, 14, 33, 45, 49, 121

Victoria, Lake, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 26

— — discharge table, 143

— — gauges, 167

— — tributaries, 28

Victoria Nile, 12, 14, 15, 22, 28, 130, 139, 140, 141

— — discharge table, 143

— — gauges, 167

— — distances, 127

— — slopes, 120

— — tributaries, 29

— — velocities, 121

Vœlcker, Dr., 64

W

Wadelai, 16, 31, 90, 139-141

— discharge table, 144

— gauges, 168

Wad Medani, 20, 44, 136, 137, 215

— — discharge table, 147

— — gauges, 179-182

Wady Halfa, 14, 15, 48, 139-141

Wadi Halfa discharge table, 151

Wady Natrûn, 115

Wady Rayan, 74, 76, 77, 80, 81, 85, 87, 88

Water, Analysis of, 62, 63, 67

Watersheds, 16

Webb, Mr. A., 89

Weeds, 29

Wells, 108

Werne, M., 38

Western, Lt.-Col. J. H., 74, 77

White Nile, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 23, 32, 36, 38, 41, 43, 46, 56, 60, 61, 84, 119, 129, 134, 135, 139-141

— — distances on 126

— — discharge tables, 146

— — gauges, 177, 178

— — slope, 120

— — velocities, 121

Whitehouse, Commander, 26

Whitehouse, Mr. Cope, 74

Winds, 19, 20, 27, 214-220

Y

Yei river, 34

Z

Zeraf river, 13, 33, 34, 36-40, 84, 92, 94, 129, 133

— discharges, 36, 133