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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.11715#0129
CAIRO TO ASSOUAN.
and threatens to submerge the whole. On the riverside the banks are being rapidly
undermined by the force of the current. One smaller temple lower down the slope has
already been swept away, and apparently in a few years this too will disappear.
GEOTTOES OF SILSILIS.
We now approach the first cataract ot the Nile. The scenery begins to assume a
more distinctively Nubian character. Soon the ruined towers over Assouan come
into view, and the second stage of our journey is completed.
and threatens to submerge the whole. On the riverside the banks are being rapidly
undermined by the force of the current. One smaller temple lower down the slope has
already been swept away, and apparently in a few years this too will disappear.
GEOTTOES OF SILSILIS.
We now approach the first cataract ot the Nile. The scenery begins to assume a
more distinctively Nubian character. Soon the ruined towers over Assouan come
into view, and the second stage of our journey is completed.