Note 67 — Chapter XI

Euterpe, 5.—His words are very emphatic. "To one of ordinary intelligence, who has not heard of it before, but sees it, Egypt is manifestly land acquired by the inhabitants, and a gift from the river—δωρον τον ποταμον." The 10th and 12th chapters of the same book deserve especial study for the admirable inductive style in which the historian compares the phenomena observable in Egypt with what were well known as the results of river action in other lands. The passages might be quoted word for word in the most rigid scientific argument of any modern geologist.