Geography of egypt in Biblical History

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What is the Geography of Egypt?
        GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT
        The country has three great natural divisions: (1) the Delta; (2) the Nile valley; (3) the
         sandy and rocky wastes. The Delta is one vast triangular plain, watered by the branches of the Nile and numerous
         canals, and covered with remains of ancient cities and villages and groves of palm trees, which stand on mounds
         of great antiquity. The Delta extends along the Mediterranean for about 200 miles and up the Nile for 100 miles.
         The Tanitic branch of the Nile is on the east of the Delta, and the Canopic branch on the west, though the Delta
         is now limited chiefly to the space between the Rosetta and the Damietta branches, which is about 90 miles in
         extent. The valley of the Nile extends to the lower or First Cataract, near the island of Philae, which is about
         500 miles south of Cairo. It is in a rich state of cultivation, but is very narrow, and hemmed in by low
         mountains or rocky table-land, rarely rising into peaks, though often approaching the river in bold
         promontories. Behind the rocky range, which varies from 300 to 1000 feet in height, on either side of the Nile,
         are deserts rocky and strewn with sand. The valley is scarcely more than 10 miles wide, and there is little
         fruitful land beyond its limits, or such portions as are reached by its fertilizing waters on the rise and
         overflow of the river. See Nile.

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