Nilometer

All these things were regulated by the indications of the Nilometer.

The river should rise to this height upon the Nilometer at Cairo if there is to be a "good Nile."

Not far from the spot mentioned above is the famous Nilometer that Moses looked upon many a time.

A few days later an anxious crowd gathered to see the water mark on the Nilometer begin to come up.

The old Nilometer, for measuring the depths29 of the Nile, which was erected in 716, is of interest.