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
Citadel and Mosque of Mahomet Ali The old Nilometer, for measuring the depths29 of the Nile, which was erected in 716, is of interest.
From Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
We know that the column of the Nilometer has been frequently repaired, which fact explains the apparent discrepancy between the height of the gauge as given in Benjamin's narrative and the figures just mentioned.
From The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin of Tudela
From Old Cairo we crossed over to the Island of Roda, to see the Nilometer.
From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous
Not far from the spot mentioned above is the famous Nilometer that Moses looked upon many a time.
From Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols
