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Arabia (search for this): book 2, chapter 12
Memphis (Egypt) (search for this): book 2, chapter 12
As for Egypt, then, I credit those who say it, and myself very much believe it to be the case; for I have seen that Egypt projects into the sea beyond the neighboring land, and shells are exposed to view on the mountains, and things are coated with salt, so that even the pyramids show it, and the only sandy mountain in Egypt is that which is above Memphis;
besides, Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia); it is a land of black and crumbling earth, as if it were alluvial deposit carried down the river from Aethiopia;
but we know that the soil of Libya is redder and somewhat sandy, and Arabia and Syria are lands of clay and stones.
Egypt (Egypt) (search for this): book 2, chapter 12
As for Egypt, then, I credit those who say it, and myself very much believe it to be the case; for I have seen that Egypt projects into the sea beyond the neighboring land, and shells are exposed to view on the mountains, and things are coated withEgypt projects into the sea beyond the neighboring land, and shells are exposed to view on the mountains, and things are coated with salt, so that even the pyramids show it, and the only sandy mountain in Egypt is that which is above Memphis;
besides, Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia)Egypt is that which is above Memphis;
besides, Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia); it is a land of black and crumbling earth, as if it were alluvial deposit carried down the river from Aethiopia;
but we know that the soil of Libya is redder and somewhat sandy, and Arabia and Syria are lands of clay and stones.
Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia); it is a land of black and crumbling earth, as if it were alluvial deposit carried down the river from Aethiopia;
but we know that the soil of Libya is redder and somewhat sandy, and Arabia and Syria are lands of clay and stones.
Libya (Libya) (search for this): book 2, chapter 12
Syria (Syria) (search for this): book 2, chapter 12