Nilometer
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Lanchester concludes that “words longer mean what they once did. It is not a process intended to deceive, but, like the Nilometer, it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak money.”
From Forbes ● Aug. 7, 2014
The Nilometer at this place used to give the first and early intimation to the cultivators in Lower Egypt of the quantity of water being brought down from the rivers of Abyssinia.
From The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger
The moon-god Khons bears in his hands either a palm-branch or "the Nilometer."
From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley
From Old Cairo we crossed over to the Island of Roda, to see the Nilometer.
From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous
This is the isle of Rodda, on the bank of which Moses was found, and where you may see the Nilometer.
From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Richard Harding Davis
