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Excerpt from Sunnyside Irrigation Canal
Fix in mind a waterway excavated to the depth of one hundred feet, six hundred and sixty feet wide and 1250 miles long, and you will but comprehend an Egyptian enterprise built for the double purpose of watering the land and for floating vessels. Have in mind this vast canal encircling a plain with great ditches, cutting it into many parts, and then a network of smaller waterways everywhere, distributing waterjo the rich and thirsty soil; picture here and there upon these waterways and the Nile great cities with palaces, temples and magnifi cent tombs, the people arrayed in the richest of fabrics and ornamented in priceless jewels (for it should not be forgotten that there is scarcely an article of comfort or luxury now in use, but that its counterpart is shown in some of the pictures still fresh and bright, on the walls of the tombs of the ancient Egyptian add to this the pyramids, the great dams of the Nile, groves of stately palms and tall trees gently nodding in the lazy breezes of the Mediterranean coast; dot the plain with groves of citrus fruit and vineyards, (for here Bacchus had his mythical being and was worshipped.) and you have Egypt not in fancy, but as a reality centuries ago.
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