Note 127 — Chapter XXVIII · THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE NILE BASIN
Reading edition
This name means “the terrible,” from the violence with which it sweeps down a winding chasm from an altitude of 7,000 feet in Abyssinia to 2,500 feet in the Nubian plains.
Reading edition
This name means “the terrible,” from the violence with which it sweeps down a winding chasm from an altitude of 7,000 feet in Abyssinia to 2,500 feet in the Nubian plains.