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Thus it will be seen that there was no very high accuracy in the division of the scales.
Mean Cubit. Shortest Cubit.
Metre. Metre.
Scale I....... -.320 ...... -507
Scale H....... '532 ...... *'072
Scale III....... -535 ...... 525
Longest Cubit.
Metre.
•538
. *-081 *This is the length of a palm which=\ cubit.
'545
Moreover, in levelling on from the bottom of one portion of a scale to the top of the next, there are considerable errors, which are given below for
Scales I. and III.; this cannot be done for Scale II., as the ends of the portions are below the stairway in several cases. (Note, + indicates that the top of the
lower portion of the scale is below the level of the bottom of the upper, and — that it is above it.)
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There is no modern gauge at Phil?e for recording the height reached by the Nile in flood, but in exceptional years the water is said to wash
the base of the granite block lying in front of the Police hut at Shellal, east of Philse Island. The E.L. of this point was found to be 99 200, so that
we have— Metres.
E.L. of top of Scale I. ... 99-654
II. ... 99890
111. ... 99-990
Present flood Nile about ... 99-200
Thus it will be seen that there was no very high accuracy in the division of the scales.
Mean Cubit. Shortest Cubit.
Metre. Metre.
Scale I....... -.320 ...... -507
Scale H....... '532 ...... *'072
Scale III....... -535 ...... 525
Longest Cubit.
Metre.
•538
. *-081 *This is the length of a palm which=\ cubit.
'545
Moreover, in levelling on from the bottom of one portion of a scale to the top of the next, there are considerable errors, which are given below for
Scales I. and III.; this cannot be done for Scale II., as the ends of the portions are below the stairway in several cases. (Note, + indicates that the top of the
lower portion of the scale is below the level of the bottom of the upper, and — that it is above it.)
Metre.
Scale I.
Scale III.
' Betweer
1st
mil
2nd
portions
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2nd
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3rd
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035
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nil.
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>>
—
•022
nil.
There is no modern gauge at Phil?e for recording the height reached by the Nile in flood, but in exceptional years the water is said to wash
the base of the granite block lying in front of the Police hut at Shellal, east of Philse Island. The E.L. of this point was found to be 99 200, so that
we have— Metres.
E.L. of top of Scale I. ... 99-654
II. ... 99890
111. ... 99-990
Present flood Nile about ... 99-200