¶ Capitulum / 16 /
EGipte hath the name of egypte danays broder / and highte somtyme Aeria and hath in the eest. syde the reed se••· in the
Prolicionycion [sic]
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- Prolicionycion [sic]
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- Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364.
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south the Ryuer Nylus. and blac men. In the north the grete see and the ouer partye of Siria / and in the west libia / Egypte is zelde beraynd. and hath water and moysture only of the Ryuer nylus / and is ryche of corn of fruyt and of Marchandyse· Petr{us} capitulo· 94¶ Egypte ayenst kynde of other londes whan it hath plente of corn. it is bareyn of pasture· And grasse groweth after¦ward in tyme. There ben Cocodrylly and ypotamy also that ben water horses. Egipt hath in the ceste side a grete wyldernesse and dyuerce maner beestes wonderly shape· and in the west canopea / the whiche Ilond is the ende of egipt / and begynnyng of libia. ther is the mouth of Nylus. ffor there Nylus falleth in to the gre¦te see. R· Though men rede in bookes that Nylus that is named gyon renneth out of Paradyse / Yet it is sayd that Nylus spryn∣geth vp in the west ende of Ethiopia not fer from the hylle that is named Mons. Athlas / And thenne nylus goth for••h aboute Ethiopia and doun in to Egypte and ouerfloweth the playn countrees of Egypt. and by cause of slyme that renneth therwi••h it maketh the londe fatte and good to here corn and fruyt. so seyth Ierome vpon the prophete Amos by goddes owen ordenaunce· Nylus ouerfloweth and watreth alle the londe of Egypte / For heepes of grauel stoppe his cours that it may not lyg••tly falle in to the grete see· But after that it hath so biflowe & watred the lon¦de the heepes of grauel departe and falle / And thenne the water falleth in to the chanel agayn and renneth in to the grete see. Ne∣theles. Ysid seyth libro 13 / that nylus is dryuen agayn and let••e of his cours with the northeren wynde· And so the water swel∣leth floweth and wexeth grete· But beda in libro de naturis seyth that the Northeren wynde blowith in maye and stopped the cours of the water of Nylus with heepes of grauel and so the water a∣ryseth and ouerfloweth the londe / But whan the wynde ceseth the grauel to shedeth and the water falleth in to the chanel and so renneth dounward in to the grete see