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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
Besides these peculiar advantages, Egypt possessed
a considerable degree of civilisation and knowledge at
a very remote period; and, from various expressions
in the Holy Scriptures, it may be collected, that it
was a country peculiarly favoured by the Almighty.4
It seems, also, more immediately connected with the
Bible than almost any other country. From the time
of Abraham to that of our Saviour the connexion is
kept up, chiefly, however, as a prohibited land, in contrast
to that of Judea; neither is the extreme state of cor-
ruption and of idolatry, into which it afterwards fell, at
all inconsistent with the supposition that, when most
other nations were immersed in darkness, and living in
the most savage ignorance, Egypt, and, perhaps, some
portions of the East, preserved distinct and accurate
traditions of the antediluvian world, originally derived
from revelation; and that the Egyptians, for especial
purposes, were endowed with great wisdom and science.
A vast quantity of provision was collected at Kenneh,
to be sent by Cosseir to the Hedjas. The war in that
country appears likely to destroy the wealth and popu-
lation of Egypt, the mortality, by the enemy and by
sickness, being very great; and, besides these losses, the
men, to avoid the conscription, fly to the mountains;
so that the land in many districts is out of cultivation
for want of hands, and it has already become necessary
to import corn for home consumption into a land which
was once styled the granary of Rome. The supplies,
also, are subject to great waste, besides that incident
to warfare, as they are first collected into magazines
Isaiah, xix. 25.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
Besides these peculiar advantages, Egypt possessed
a considerable degree of civilisation and knowledge at
a very remote period; and, from various expressions
in the Holy Scriptures, it may be collected, that it
was a country peculiarly favoured by the Almighty.4
It seems, also, more immediately connected with the
Bible than almost any other country. From the time
of Abraham to that of our Saviour the connexion is
kept up, chiefly, however, as a prohibited land, in contrast
to that of Judea; neither is the extreme state of cor-
ruption and of idolatry, into which it afterwards fell, at
all inconsistent with the supposition that, when most
other nations were immersed in darkness, and living in
the most savage ignorance, Egypt, and, perhaps, some
portions of the East, preserved distinct and accurate
traditions of the antediluvian world, originally derived
from revelation; and that the Egyptians, for especial
purposes, were endowed with great wisdom and science.
A vast quantity of provision was collected at Kenneh,
to be sent by Cosseir to the Hedjas. The war in that
country appears likely to destroy the wealth and popu-
lation of Egypt, the mortality, by the enemy and by
sickness, being very great; and, besides these losses, the
men, to avoid the conscription, fly to the mountains;
so that the land in many districts is out of cultivation
for want of hands, and it has already become necessary
to import corn for home consumption into a land which
was once styled the granary of Rome. The supplies,
also, are subject to great waste, besides that incident
to warfare, as they are first collected into magazines
Isaiah, xix. 25.